Chapter 11
Maria didn’t know which way to turn. She couldn’t call the girls. Each of their biases were clear. She certainly couldn’t sit down with her son, and even less so with Russell. She wanted to call Julia Morgan, but she and her husband were somewhere in Australia, at least according to their last postcard. With her husband’s retirement, the two of them had become world travelers.
It was ridiculous. She knew everyone in Pike Place Market, and had no one to talk to. Except Hogan. But he was the last person she was going to be talking to about Hogan.
He’d been very patient and kind with her all week. Not demanding that she respond. Not insisting on the words. She couldn’t imagine how it must hurt him. She wanted to say them, but each time she tried, they caught in her heart, bound
