Diane’s face went red.
“You’re spending all that money? Because she can’t share a kitchen? I rented out my condo because you told me to, Mark!”
“I know,” he said quietly. “That’s exactly why I’m helping you with the apartment. But it doesn’t make Claire responsible for something I promised.”
Diane turned and looked at me like she could cut me in half.
“And you don’t have anything to say?”
I thought about it.
“I’d like you and Noah to keep spending time together,” I said. “I really would. He adores you. I just don’t want us to keep living together.”
The second it was out of my mouth, I wanted to soften it. Add something. Make it nicer.
Diane’s mouth tightened.
But I let the sentence stand. Just the way I said it.
Mark slid the apartment listing a little closer to her.
“Will you come and see it with me this afternoon, Mom?”
Diane picked up the paper.
She looked at it for a long time.
“I’m not happy about this,” she said.
Neither one of us tried to turn that into anything else.
That afternoon, she went with Mark to see the apartment.
And she signed the lease.
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