(Caroline's POV)
It's decided then.
Helen has to go.
If I knew this would happen, I would've never let her into Rose's life. But no matter. For Rose, I opened my doors for her.
And now, for Rose, I'll shut them in her face.
I was starting to find her presence unbearable anyways.
Jason comes home at five-thirty.
I've already asked Aiden to have the children over for a few hours — Charlie went willingly, Rose after some negotiation involving the promise of Aiden's very specific brand of wooden building blocks, which she has previously deemed architecturally superior to the ones at home, followed along.
Leonard stays.
Jason comes in and reads the room the way he always does and his face goes through its contained version of concern — not panic, not performance, just the focused gravi
