Chapter 6
Atlanta, Georgia
It was Tuesday and Helene typically played tennis on Tuesdays. This morning she had struggled with whether she should, but it had been a week since she had attempted to talk to Thomas and apparently it had helped. He was coming home after school each day and spending time with her and Lily, the way he had since he first started school. She convinced herself that Thomas was no longer missing school and that he must have just had a bad week or two.
As Helene drove her Mercedes into the wide circular driveway of the country club in an upscale suburb of Atlanta, her stomach tightened. It always did that. Even after all these years of clubhouses, cocktail parties, and fancy restaurants, her stomach still turned into knots when she interacted with the wealthy popula
