After Kathleen had safely tucked the girls into bed, she had come by the living room to let him know she was leaving.
He could have done more than grunt at the woman, but he didn’t feel like being kind, or courteous, or even civil. She had lied to him, they all had, and he had never even known.
Pictures of the earthquake flickered on the television news in the darkness, but after a quarter bottle of rum, a drink he hadn’t had in years, Roy barely registered what was being said. He did know that they were miraculously finding the occasional survivor in the rubble even now, over a week after the earthquake. That meant Jason and Nicole would be away at least another week, probably two, and that he would have to continue to play nice with Kathleen.
Why had Lois never told her that she and K
