GS-The turkey was still warm when he said it. I had not returned home…

fingers tightened slightly around his glass, but he did not answer.

The room had not become louder.

It had become completely still.

I stood and pushed in my chair.

“Thank you for dinner, Mom.”

“Liv,” she said.

I paused beside the doorway.

Her lips parted, but no words followed.

There had been a time when I would have waited for them. I would have stood there continue reading …