A three AM phone call about a locked room changed everything

tomorrow.”

“In exchange for what?” I asked.

“Just drop the Thursday dispute,” he said. “Let me have them when my travel allows it. Some weeks it will be Tuesday, some weeks Friday. We can be flexible.”

“A routine is not flexible, Alan,” I said.

“It is twelve hundred extra dollars, Lily,” he said, his eyes scanning the school parking lot.continue reading …