Karen raised her eyebrows.
“Yeah,” I admitted.
“Is she okay?”
I looked at the woman sitting opposite me. She was holding a coffee cup between both hands, staring at the steam as if she had discovered something important inside it.
“She will be.”
Daniel sighed.
“Dad called me. They’re getting divorced.”
“I figured.”
“He says it’s been over for years.”
Karen’s expression hardened.
I covered the phone.
“Do you want to talk to him?”
She shook her head.
I returned to the call.“She doesn’t want to talk right now.”
“Tell her I love her.”
“I will.”
“And Alex?”
“Yeah?”
“Thanks for going to get her.”
There was something in his voice that made my chest tighten.
“Always.”
I hung up.
Karen looked at me.
“What did he say?”
“That he loves you.”
She closed her eyes.
For a moment, I thought she might cry again.
