Chapter 97

• We both watched Maddy, and there was a nice easy energy between us. It didn’t seem like the time to talk to her about why things were so off between her and Jason. I just wanted to enjoy the moment.
• “Sorry I didn’t help you with the stroller yesterday morning,” I said, after a while. “I could hear you struggling in the hallway, but I was too caught up in my own stuff. A mountain of paperwork and my own self-importance. I was being a dick. Sorry. If I’d heard you this morning, I would have helped.”
• “I left it downstairs, after yesterday,” she said. ‘But thanks. It’s not your job to help me out with stuff like that, and please don’t feel you have to, though. But I do appreciate it. When I’m in the middle of a living nightmare like that over the simplest thing, I get really angry with anyone who doesn’t seem to get that I’m struggling so badly.” She blushed a little. “I probably did bash it about a little more than necessary, when I was heavily resenting you for not coming to help me.”