at Emily and booped her nose.
“Oh, you shouldn’t—”
“No, no, Nora. What good is it for the baby to go to daycare, when she can stay with her mom?”
I expected there to be a catch.
People had rarely been kind to me without eventually asking for something in return.
But Richard never did.
Each morning, before I started work, he would find me.
“How are you today, Nora? Do you need anything?”
“I’m fine,” I always replied.
He never seemed convinced, but he respected the answer.
Richard hired
