Chapter 26

• Things had changed drastically between them. First off they didn’t eat together. When he was at the table she wasn’t, when she wasn’t he was. They were blatantly ignoring each other. And it seemed the whole house knew. And since Reginald was the highest in rank among all of them. Just when he thought his employer would be the only child he would take care of. Now Darlene was part of it. She had taken to calling him. Even when they were in the same house. The one who took the brunt of it were the workers. Cooking breakfast at different intervals so that it wouldn’t be cold.
• He was the one in charge of them not running into each other. But he could only do that downstairs. Upstairs was a different ballgame. If they ran into each other in the hall that was their problem. He didn’t know what he would do then. And the funny thing he didn’t know what was happening. None of them told him.
• Nathan went by as if things were normal.