Do you expect me to do all this now?
“You brought four bags here because you were hoping I would do all this.
“That’s different.
“How?
He opened his mouth and then closed it.
“You always do,” he said finally.
There she was.
Not you offered. I didn’t think you wouldn’t mind.
You always do it.
“Exactly.
Josh moved to his side.
“Mom, maybe we can take her home.
“Of course they can.
Vanessa looked at him.
Children need clean clothes for school and you need clean shirts for work on Monday.
“Then we can wash a little tonight.
We’ll be washing clothes until midnight.
I nodded.
“Now you understand why four bags didn’t seem like a little favor to me.
Then Vanessa noticed the fourth basket.
What is that?
“Things that did not belong to any of the other three.
Before he could get close, Josh pulled one of the white shirts.
“This one is not mine.
He lifted another shirt.
“This one either.
He looked at Vanessa.
Whose are the clothes?
“It doesn’t matter.
“It does matter if it’s mixed with our clothes.
I got between the two of us.
“I saw her before,” I said. I wasn’t going to accuse Vanessa of anything based just on a shirt. But if you’ve been bringing someone else’s clothes to my house every weekend, I think I have the right to know who all this work I’ve been doing has been.
Vanessa’s anger disappeared.
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It’s my dad’s.
Josh frowned.
“Your dad?”
She sat down.
“He moved in three weeks ago.
Where?
—To an apartment in an nursing home for seniors.
Josh stared at her.
What?
