“What?”
“These aren’t real.”
“A good lawyer keeps things civilized.”
“Excuse me?”
“The divorce papers. They’re fake.”
“Fake?”
“Evan put them here to see if you’d open his mail again.”
She turned on him.
“You set me up?”
“The divorce papers. They’re fake.”
“You opened yet another envelope!”
“It was lying there looking lonely!”
“And then you congratulated me.”
“I did no such thing!”
“You said people make mistakes.”
“I meant marriage is complicated! Of course I love Sarah!”
“You set me up?”
I raised an eyebrow. “That’s the first I’ve heard of it.”
Then came the tears, right on cue. Supportive mother became victim of a cruel prank without a blink.
“I raised you, Evan. And this is how you treat me?”
“Mom, all you had to do was leave it alone.”
“I can’t believe you’d do this to me!”
“Actually, Diane, there’s a reason we picked divorce papers.”
