(Brad)
The house felt different without Jade in it.
Not better. Not worse. Just different in the way spaces changed when the thing filling them was gone. I noticed it most in the mornings when I came downstairs and the kitchen was quiet in a way it hadn't been for weeks.
Lena was still here of course.
And now Diane was too.
I'd stopped trying to understand that particular development. Gerald had told me there was nothing legally actionable about Lena having a guest and I'd accepted that the same way I'd accepted most things lately. By filing it away and moving forward because sitting with it didn't change anything.
I made coffee and stood at the counter.
Gerald had called yesterday with an update that amounted to nothing new. The hearing was set. The financial disclosures were being
