“She does love the kids.”
“That’s not what I asked.”
He turned on his sister.
“Don’t start acting like I forced you into anything. You were thrilled when I came up with the idea.”
Heather went pale.
“I was thrilled because you said she’d agreed.”
I’d never seen her so alarmed.
Heather and her husband Colin had separated roughly a year earlier. They shared parenting duties, but his rotating warehouse shifts made childcare difficult.
She worked full-time handling insurance claims and couldn’t take three small children to her office.
“What about their daycare?” I asked.
Heather pressed her lips together.
“I gave two weeks’ notice. They require it.”
“Can you call and get their places back?”
“I tried asking about Maddie’s spot yesterday because her teacher said she’d miss her. The director told me all three places had already been offered to families on the waiting list.”
