Kathleen listened to Nicole with as much concentration as she could muster with that man standing across the room. Did he have to look so smug? He was still winning the favorite grandparent prize by being asked to stay under the same roof with the girls. It wasn’t surprising. Jason and Nicole had always relied on his parents more when the children were born. The children knew Roy better. But she would make up for lost time. She had a month to plan activities with the girls. They were going to have fun.
She just wished the girls would hang off her the way Jade was hanging off Roy now. Jade loved her grandfather. They did projects together out in the shed, Jade had told her. And he was always showing her how to build or fix something.
Amber had been Lois’s girl. Lois, who was a domestic go
