Neither was smiling.
“You’re back earlier than we expected,” Evelyn said.
I blinked slowly. “I told you my return date.”
She waved that away like deployment schedules and time zones were optional suggestions. “Well, things changed.”
Of course they had. I lifted one of the garbage bags slightly. “Yeah, I can see that.”
Richard stepped forward, taking up space. “We needed to make some adjustments while you were gone.”
Adjustments. That word carried a lot of weight in this house. I looked past them into the living room. The furniture had been rearranged. New throw pillows. A framed photo
