Benet was in an optimistic phase. He’d gotten a job, although it required him to travel a lot, but until today he could organize his schedule in order to be at school in time to pick up Josh in the afternoons. This would be the first time he wouldn’t be there. But he didn’t need to worry; in the past two months, nothing had happened to break the idyllic environment Julie and Jake had provided for them. So he was confident nothing would happen in the next two days either. He was not only sure; he believed it.
Linda’s recovery was moving at a good rhythm now, although she could not get out of bed alone yet; she still needed help. Beside her bed stood her wheelchair, and her chopstick-thin body was not heavy, even Jake could lift her from the bed to her chair when she wanted. Jake had been a
