The Girl in the Blue Coat

Sylvie sat in the study with the door closed.

The house was quiet. The children had gone to their rooms after the lawyer left, each of them carrying the weight of the afternoon in their own way. Evander was somewhere down the hall giving her the space she had not asked for but that he understood she needed.

The envelope was on the desk in front of her.

Her name in Damon's handwriting. The same han