(Millie POV)
Adrianna did not speak to us for four days.
That is the way my mother does grief. She does it by performance. Adrianna does not cry. Adrianna does not throw things. Adrianna makes breakfast. She makes coffee. And she makes dinner. And she goes to bed at ten and gets up at six and makes lunch and goes to Marcy's and comes home humming a song from her last holiday in Mexico. Adrianna behaves the way a woman behaves when she has decided that behaving is the loudest thing she can do with her voice, and she has decided to do it for thirty days, and the thirty days are the thirty days she promised Richard in the kitchen in her lavender robe before she locked the door behind her. Richard did not leave the master bedroom for the first twenty-four hours. He slept downstairs on the co
