Mother to Mother

Chapter 260. Eleanor At the Door.

SIENNA

I hadn't expected it to land the way it landed.

I had stood on the porch and said everything was true. Everything steadily okay. Every word exactly the way Zainab would have wanted me to say it, factually and unmoved. I had watched Miriam's car pull away, and I felt, for a moment, the satisfaction of having held my own ground completely.

Then the satisf