Learning What Has Changed

Chapter 144: Learning What Has Changed Sedona's POV It rang twice. "Hello?" Her voice, careful—she wouldn't recognize the number, which was a new one, the Seattle number I'd been using since coming home. "Mrs. Peterson," I said. "It's Sedona." A pause. In the pause: everything. The months since I'd left, the things that had happened in that house in those months, the patience of a woman who had been handling more than she expected and still not leaving. "Sedona." Her voice changed—not dramatically, but the carefulness from talking to a potential stranger had shifted into something warmer, the warmth of someone who had been hoping for this call for a long time and was relieved it had arrived. "Are you—are you all right?" "I'm better," I said. "Much better. I am no longer in the h