The door opened in the hallway,and Jonas tried to smile reassuringly.
“It’s just Francesca.”
“I know. I’ve heard his car pull up outside enough to know he’s not here. It’s not exactly conspicuous.”
Elizabeth regretted snapping at him like that, but she didn’t have time to apologize before Francesca breezed into the room.
She didn’t sit down, and it gave the impression she was only stopping by rather than intending to stay.
Elizabeth noticed that she was empty-handed and knew without having to ask that something had happened.
“You didn’t get food?”
Elizabeth noted in passing that this was the second time Jonas had not let her get away with her usual stony silence.
“I told Nathan about this. I will not pretend that I was doing anything else. He phoned me to say he was leaving the hos
