(Millie POV)
I did not know he was at the office.
I did not know he was at the office because Richard did not always tell me when he was at the office. Richard had not been in the habit of telling me when he was at the office for days. Richard had been at the office the way Richard had always been at the office, and sometimes late, sometimes early, sometimes in the upstairs study pretending to take a phone call, sometimes out for the afternoon for a meeting. This Wednesday afternoon I was at Mercury Café and I was sitting at the corner table by the window and I was drinking my lavender latte and I was not eating my toast because Adrianna had been making too many grapefruit halves and the toast at Mercury had been the small un-eaten thing I had been ordering for three years without ever f
