started teaching me when I was younger than Avery.” She paused. “She died four years ago. I haven’t — I don’t do it as much as I should.”
The kettle came to a boil. Owen made two cups and set one in front of her and asked, because he genuinely wanted to know, about her mother. And Lila told him — carefully at first, with the hesitation of someone unaccustomed continue reading …
