Aviva and Suri decide to make one last attempt to persuade Yael to come back. Yael refuses, and throws away the flowers they sent her as a thank-you gesture,Learning Curve: Chapter 34,Aviva and Suri decide to make one last attempt to persuade Yael to come back. Yael refuses, and throws away the flowers they sent her as a thank-you gesture
I t was the first Jeren monthly Melaveh Malkah since Yael had quit and she’d been begging Ephraim all week to let her feign illness. Ephraim wouldn’t hear of it. The Melavah Malkahs were sacrosanct — as she well knew. Rina had once shown up to one a mere hour after being discharged from the hospital with baby number four. And anything Rina did of course was the gold standard for the Jeren siblings.
Yet Yael couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something else at play in Ephraim’s insistence she come. That his obstinacy was subconsciously a form of punishing her. A way of saying you made your bed go lie in it.
Though nearly four weeks had passed her husband had still not gotten over it.
Her father-in-law was in a particularly expansive mood tonight.
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