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They alking along the sand Theers Couples Kids

Jem remembered a summer at Myrtle Beach with his family They’d built some killer sand towns Not just castles Modern-day towns

He wanted to build one with Lacey Right then

The rest of the world be damned

Her question still hung between the than talking

After Tressa, Jem found solace in the comfortable silences he could share with Lacey

“We divorced because Tressa called a client and told hi—not mine”

“Were you?”

The question was fair She’d heard Tressa call him a whore Not that she’d have taken that literally, obviously, but it had implied infidelity

“The woman was seventy years old So was the er wife I could have been screwing In Tressa’s mind”

“Oh”

Yeah “When Tressa found out how old the as, she told hihter”

Lacey

“The couple had their sixteen-year-old granddaughter living with them She had cerebral palsy and I’d carried her out of the car and into the house one day because the battery on her chair had died Unbeknownst toby the place because I’d been spending so much time there But also, she said, because I smiled a lot when I talked about them”

“So what happened?”