Sophia's POV
Wednesday Dominic called a family meeting.
Not an emergency one. He had started distinguishing between them since everything settled, which was its own kind of progress. He sent a message to the house group at nine in the morning that said dinner tonight, everyone, seven o'clock, not urgent.
Not urgent from Dominic meant come anyway.
Everyone came.
Lena came. Richard had been invited which I knew because Damien had told me quietly over morning coffee that Dominic had called Richard himself this morning to extend the invitation and that the call had lasted four minutes which was three minutes and forty seconds longer than their previous calls.
Progress moved in seconds with these people.
I had started to love that about them.
By six thirty the kitchen smelled like somet
