Chapter 9
There was no family night that day. Eva was coloring on the coffee table in the living room, and Reine could hear Charlotte upstairs with Cameron. The evening had been tense, and so had dinner, as Marcus still hadn’t come home.
“Hey, Eva, what are you working on?”
Eva flicked her blue eyes up to her and smiled as she pulled out a shade of green from the box of pencil crayons and started working on the hair of a girl with a dog. “It’s a coloring book Alison bought for me. It has all these different dog breeds. You okay, Mommy?”
Damn, she was so sweet and thoughtful.
“Yeah, of course I am. You’re quite the artist. You really love coloring?”
Her daughter reached for another pencil crayon, yellow, and kept coloring. “Uh-huh. Are you going to read with me again tonight?”
She wo
