Just one clean chime cutting through my little living room while the gold pen hovered over a signature line Brooke had been praying I wouldn’t read.
Her polished smile cracked at the corner.
Paul, the man with the navy suit and black briefcase, looked up first. His eyes flicked to the door, then to Brooke, then to the papers spread across my coffee table like white bones.
“Were you expecting someone?” Brooke asked.
Her voice was still sweet.
But sweetness has a sound when it is forced.