While I Was Gone

Chapter 144: Learning What Has Changed

Sienna's POV

It rang twice.

"Hello?" Her voice, careful—she wouldn't recognize the number, which was a new one, the Seattle number I'd been using since coming home.

"Mrs. Caldwell," I said. "It's Sienna."

A pause.

In the pause: everything. The months since I'd left, the things that had happened in that house in those months, the patience of a woman who had