AT WHICH POINT I REALIZED that I lacked a key to the apartment I’d just left behind. If the Garcias failed to let me back in this evening, then I’d be stuck in the city without so much as a single change of clothes. Dad wouldn’t be impressed by my dental hygiene then, now would he?
In which case I’ll just buy new stuff, I decided. After all, panties and toothpaste were easily replaced. In contrast, the slender thread of possibility that I might still make things right with my sister-in-law trumped all else.
So, turning away from the door, I double timed it down the hallway and stairs before Harmony could change her mind and call me back for a much-deserved dressing down. Out in the morning air, I breathed in the dampness of a freshly washed city, overnight rain having swept away the scen
