Reena always sounded tired.
“They’re sleeping.”
“They’re sick.”
“They get upset when you visit.”
“You remind them too much of their father.”
Peter hated that last one.
He hated it because it worked.
He hated it because it made him imagine Drew crying after he left, Lily reaching for a man who sounded like somebody she had lost before she could remember him.
So he backed off.
Not all the way.
Never all the way.
But enough.
