My Family Left Me With the Anniversary Bill After Dinner Then the Bank Called About a Form I Never Signed

in the room. “We moved it up to five,” he mumbled. “Didn’t Chloe tell you?”

Chloe shrugged, and the bracelet caught the light again. “I’m pretty sure I mentioned it might change,” she said in a honeyed voice. “Besides, we figured you’d be too busy anyway.”

She had called me at noon. She had said six-thirty. She had made sure — made sure — that I would continue reading …