Chapter 4

Dominic

Dominic had written Sloane Ridley's name in the Mother / Guardian box three years earlier, and when Emmett asked about the seating, he answered with the same easy logic.

“She works nights. She's unreachable most days. Sloane's the one the school can call.”

That should have explained the table.

It explained every school morning Dominic had managed without waking Nora, every pickup that happened while she slept, every small emergency somebody else handled.

He had arranged coverage. That was what responsible people did.

After dinner, he went to the study and opened the drawer where he kept household papers.