“Ma, I promise we’re coming tomorrow. Just not today,” Nathan said pleadingly. “This is my fault, I swear. I should’ve taken this job earlier, but I kept pushing it off until they told me last night that I couldn’t back out.”
He sighed. “If I could, I would, Mom. But right now, I have to do this. We’ll be there tomorrow, I promise.”
Evelyn took a deep breath. “Nathan, are you sure you’re coming with her tomorrow?”
“Unfailingly, Mom. Tomorrow.”
She nodded and patted his arm. “Fine. Since you said it’s your fault, I’m blaming you for it.”
He raised a brow. “Seriously? Mom, I’ll see you later, okay? I have to run an errand.”
She nodded and turned back to her work. “I’ll see you later then.”
Nathan, on his own end, followed a direction that Rosie had given him that morning. He was suppo
