CHAPTER 21
Her smile still warmed him when he walked in the door and entered the kitchen. The temperature in the kitchen, however, was a lot lower.
The two girls were at the table. Ciara looked tired and fed up, while Cassie had her head buried in her hands and dark circles under her puffy, red-rimmed eyes. They didn’t bother looking at him when he walked in, in contrast to Wanda, who jumped and bounced around him until he bent to scratch her fluffy ears.
“What’s going on?” he asked. Kyle walked over to the kettle and re-boiled it. It had obviously been used recently because it clicked off almost immediately.
“It’s one of those days,” Ciara explained.
She didn’t need to elaborate. They all knew what those days were like. Kyle, on the other hand, was not having one of them.
“And Cassi
