My MIL Asked My Son to Scrape the Ice off Her Car for $20, Then Refused to Pay – Karma Hit Her Threefold

Time away from… softness.”

“I don’t know,” I said. “He’s never stayed alone with you.”

There was a pause.

“Perhaps that’s the problem,” Eleanor replied.

Nate hesitated. He always did with her.

A lifetime of conditioning.

“It could be good for him,” he said. “Just a week or two.”

I looked at Oliver. He was thirteen then.

Trying hard to look grown.

“Would you want to go?” I asked.

He shrugged. “If it makes Dad happy.”

Eleanor smiled for the first time I could remember.

I didn’t like the way she said that. I should’ve listened to that feeling.

Because the very first morning he was there, my phone rang before breakfast.

“Mom?” Oliver said quietly.

“Yes, honey?”

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