The nieces were worse than the church.
I turned to face her. “I haven’t asked her for anything.”
“Of course you have. Why else would you be here?”
“Because SHE asked ME for help. I drove her to the cardiologist on Tuesday. Were you there?”
She narrowed her eyes and walked out.
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I stood at the sink for a long time wondering when I had stopped rehearsing what I would do with the money.
“I haven’t asked her for anything.”
The years passed in a series of small moments.
I fixed things, we did crosswords together, we laughed together.
We became friends.
Then, one day, she said something strange over breakfast.
“If anything happens, Daniel, you listen to Mr. Halsey, my lawyer.”
I frowned at her. “Nothing’s going to happen, Eleanor.”
We became friends.
“Everything happens eventually.” She pushed her plate aside. “Families can lose things they never should have lost.”
