He pulled up a chair and sat down, the legs scraping against the wooden floor with a soft scrape.
"Aren't you going to tell me something?" he asked.
"Say what?" I said.
"Like why you forwarded the message to Jenna," he replied.
I lowered my head and continued braiding the bracelet. I looped the red string around my fingertips three times, pulled it tight, and tied a snake knot.
"Isn't that what you wanted?" I said. "You wanted to see the second daughter, and now she's the Hayes family's second daughter."
"When did I say I wanted to see her?" he asked.
"You said it in our last life," I said.
The moment the words left my mouth, silence fell.
Joseph's fingers tightened slightly on his knee.
Neither of us spoke. Outside the window, a car honked on the road, distant and several floors
