I looked at the screen.
“You had no right to do that!”
“Actually, Elaine,” I said, “I think I do.”
“I read it three times,” she said. “I thought it was spam.”
“It wasn’t.”
“I sat in the lobby shaking. Is that what you wanted?”
“I wanted you to feel it. What it’s like when someone decides you’re in the way.”
“I never said you were in the way!”
“I thought it was spam.”
“You said it in a hallway. Thirty feet from my mother.”
“Don’t you twist this around!”
“I’m not. You said Andrew and I need more time together.”
“That is not what I meant.”
“What did you mean?”
“I meant…”
“What did you mean?”
“Mom?”
Andrew was coming down the hall with a paper bag of food.
She rushed him.
“Andrew, your wife is a monster. Do you know what she did?”