So she wasn’t making it up. Her mother-in-law did think she was an irresponsible spendthrift. But she wasn’t. Was she?
“We can’t ever judge how someone is handling their personal nisayon.”
— Rivki Silver, DMC Ep. 3
“What’s going on here?” Shira heard her mother-in-law ask.
Her voice was coming from the side of the house; she must’ve just come home from her walk. Shira shrank into the wingback chair in the den. She knew her mother-in-law couldn’t see her, or know she’d heard her, but somehow, she felt like the kid caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
“I just didn’t have a chance to push the furniture back, I’ll do it now,” Clarissa answered.
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