ELLIOT
“She called Nicole to say thank you.”
He said it to Adrian across his desk at nine on Monday morning because it was the first thing he had said to anyone all day and it needed to be said to someone who would understand the weight of it.
Adrian looked up from the quarterly compliance report he had been reviewing.
“Zara,” he said.
“Yes.” Elliot looked at the window. “She called Nicole on Saturday evening. Nicole told me last night. Apparently she wanted Nicole to know that the garden needed a lot of work but that it smelled like outside and that Sera had good biscuits and that she was going to help with the beds when she came back.” He paused. “Nicole said she listened to the whole report and then said: I think it is going to be really nice when it is done.”
Adrian was quiet for
