(Millie POV)
He didn't tell me we were going to Hudson on Thursday. He told me we were going to see someone on Thursday the way Adrianna had told me about the girls' trip at dinner, casually, as if Thursday was a thing that had always been on the calendar.
I said, “at dinner, where?”
He said, “Hudson.”
He said, “we'll go in the morning, before Adrianna's up.”
He said, “don't tell her.”
“Why not?” I asked.
“Because.”
Because... The because was the because of a man who had decided his wife was not going to be a part of his new daughter's life and the not-part was going to be a sentence he was not going to discuss about.
We left the house at seven Thursday morning.
Adrianna was asleep in her guest room. Adrianna had been sleeping in her guest room for ten days. Adrianna had not yet
