I hadn’t seen her face-to-face in almost four years.
“Is something wrong?”
“Just open the door, Lena.”
That should have told me everything.
Still, emergencies do strange things to your judgment. I hit the unlock button.
Less than two minutes later, I heard the elevator doors open down the hall.
When I opened my condo door, my mother walked straight past me.
No hug.
No “How have you been?”
Not even the awkward little half-smile strangers give each other in elevators.