”
Marcus asked how many weeks.
She held up six fingers.
Six weeks.
Not one missed check.
Not two.
Six.
The muscle in Marcus’s jaw tightened.
He asked where her mother was.
Lily pointed.
He found Sophia Carter instantly.
She moved through the dining room balancing a heavy tray with the grim speed of someone who had worked past the edge of exhaustion and kept going continue reading …
