Thirty days to forever
I also hate it, because it means he knows what's coming and I don't.
“Yes,” I say, steadier than I expect. Small victories.
He opens the folder. I watch his hands instead of his face, because his face keeps doing something complicated every time he glances at me, and I don't have room for one more complicated thing today.
“The will of Edmund Calloway,” he reads, “executed the fourteenth of March, revised most recently four months ago.”