DanaYou're the nephew. The one she liked.

Dana has the accounts open on the kitchen table and a pen she has not put down since you came in.

She has been covering the shortfall out of her own pocket for a year, and the receipts are in a shoebox.

DanaYour window needs doing. A hundred and forty. Rent's due on the first.

She looks at you the way people look at a bill they have already decided not to pay.