had taken her hand.
“Meg,” he said, using the nickname only he used, “love them if you can. But don’t let them eat you alive.”
She had cried after that meeting in the car.
Robert had stared through the windshield at the courthouse flag moving in the wind and pretended not to notice until she was ready to breathe again.
Now, standing in her kitchen without him, Margaret picked up her purse.
It was heavier than it looked.
Daniel took the suitcase.
Ashley took nothing.
They moved through the front
