“Why we moving?” Theo sat on his bed, watching as Ginna packed up his clothes and toys.
“Why are we moving,” Ginna corrected. “And I’ve already told you a dozen times, because we’re going to live with Van.”
“But why?”
It was three days after Vance had returned home from Chicago. With Troy in the custody of Makie and her people, Theo was back home again, much to his relief. He’d spent the first morning clinging to Ginna as if she’d vanish if he didn’t. When she told him she wasn’t going anywhere, at least for a while yet, he told her, “You stay. Or I go…go to Bessie. Not to those people.”
She worried for a minute, asking, “Didn’t you have fun?”
“No kids. Just grownups.”
“Ahh, I see. All right, from now on it’ll be Bessie or nowhere.”
“Promise?”
“Unless it’s an emergency, yes.” When
