(Lena)
I left the office just after six.
The Evan Hale specs were in better shape than they had been this morning and I had a clearer picture of what the meeting needed to look like. It wasn't ready yet but it was closer and closer was enough for today.
Cora had already gone home by the time I packed up. I turned off the lights and locked up and walked to my car and sat there for a moment before starting the engine.
It had been a full day.
The hearing. Brad leaving with the suitcase. My mother showing up at the office. Cole dropping me home. All of it had happened in less than twenty four hours and I felt the weight of it settling into my body the way things did at the end of a day when you finally stopped moving.
I drove home.
Diane was in the kitchen when I walked in. She had made
