Chapter 11
About two weeks after Olivia’s announcement that she was moving back to Detroit, I asked her if I could take Courtney to my parents’ house. She agreed, telling me she was grateful for the break since she had a lot of errands to run and packing to do and having the baby out of her hair would help enormously. So I picked Courtney up around ten o’clock Saturday morning. Olivia packed a bag for her and gave me her car seat and we headed to Radnor.
I’d called my mother earlier that morning to tell her I was coming and she was waiting at the front door when I pulled into the driveway. She looked at Courtney strapped in the convertible car seat carrier, then at me, then back at Courtney.
“This is Olivia’s baby?” she asked as we entered the house.
“Yes.”
I could tell what my mother
