James
I try not to be obvious about it; try to treat her completely normally, but Mitch has just had her world turned over yet again. I see her sometimes, watching me; watching me with Charlotte.
What’s going on in her head?
She’s happy she has her daughter…
… but still walking on eggshells…
Not convinced she’s safe?
How much crap can get thrown into a single life?
Her brother… control freak…
Klempner… psycho…
Conners… wife-beater…
And now she walks into this… her long-lost daughter shacked up with two men…
And pregnant…
Is she coping?
?
She’s stronger than she looks…
Charlotte’s mother…
In my armchair by the fire, my bad leg stretched out to bathe the ache away with the heat, I sip a finger of brandy, losing myself in the dancing flames and the reflected amber glimmer in m
