Off Limits
Chapter 64:
The visits, once they began, settled into an easy, unhurried rhythm over the following two months — Saturday afternoons at the park giving way gradually to dinners at Renata's small, tidy apartment, the walls covered in Eli's drawings, careful, detailed sketches of dragons and spaceships that revealed an artistic patience Mia found herself genuinely admiring the first time Renata proudly displayed an entire folder of them across the kitchen table.
"He's been drawing since he could hold a crayon," Renata said, watching Jake flip carefully through the folder, Eli hovering nearby with the studied casualness of a child who very much cared what the reaction would be despite his best e