Chapter 21“So,” Selene said. She smiled up at Tilly as she set the tea saucer down in front of her. “I was wondering if you could tell me a bit more about Maurice Pryce?”
“He was my first husband,” Tilly said. Her chair creaked as she sat back down. The two of them were having tea and cookies in her living room, since the kitchen had become an elaborate staging area for all of her important documents. Gil was wandering between the kitchen and the upstairs, cleaning out old junk while also adding up all the other bills, notices, and deeds that had gone unaccounted for.
Selene was distracted by the preacher on the screen before she managed to hear Tilly’s words. “Firs husband? Have out had more than one?”
“I like to think of myself as waiting for the second,” Tilly said with a faint smile
