Making It Official

Chapter 213: On The News

SIENNA

Lucia had told me it would go live at nine.

I was in the kitchen at eight fifty-three, which was not a coincidence. My mother was at the stove doing the morning thing—the particular industry of a woman who processed the world through feeding it—and my father was at the table with his newspaper, and I was sitting with my phone face-up on the counter and a cup of tea