HER MOTHER’S HUSBAND
He looked at me when I came through and the look had the quality I was still adjusting to — the open version, the one without the managed architecture around it.
“Ready?” he said.
“Yes,” I said.
My mother came through from the corridor in the good coat, the interview coat.
I looked at her.
“I’m coming,” she said.
I stared at her.
“To Reeves,” she said. “I’m coming.”
“Mum—”
“Thomas was my husband,” she said. The flat certain delivery. “I am coming.”
I looked at Dominic.
He looked at my mother.
“There’s a waiting room,” he said.
“I know what a lawyer’s office looks like,” she said.
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