My Husband Made Me Leave the Barbecue Until He Discovered What Was Waiting at Home

the surface of it, careful not to slosh it over the rim. And at the exact moment I stepped up onto the deck, Ava stepped backward off the top stair, laughing at something on her screen, not looking where she was going. I turned. Her arm caught my shoulder. It was the lightest contact, the kind of thing that happens forty times at any crowded party,continue reading …