We had decided Dara would spend weekdays with Julia and weekends with me. She was worried about her mother. We had both hoped that she would go out more as the pain of Kara's loss faded, but she didn't.
"She won't talk to me about it, Canyon," Dara told me worriedly. "She says it's not the sort of thing you talk about with your children. What can we do? She's all alone over there, and that can't be good."
"No, it's not," I agreed. "I've been alone like that, and I know what it feels like. It's thanks to you that I'm not that way anymore." I took time out to give her a squeeze and a nice long kiss before returning to the subject at hand.
"Would you like me to try to talk with her about it? I'm over there from time to time fixing things anyway, so it would happen pretty naturally."
"Woul
