Chapter Eleven - Michael
In the house, all seems well. As it turns out, Mitch and Beth were doing double-duty between them to babysit, taking turns for a catnap whilst Cara and Adam, safely in their pen, play together. Which is to say, as we arrive, Cara is beating Adam over the head with a foam-rubber hammer. He retaliates with a squawk, lobbing plastic building bricks at her. Vicky watches from the side-lines by Mitch, goggle-eyed.
“In fact,” comments Beth, “having two of them isn’t really double the work, because they entertain each other.”
James sucks his cheeks to hollows. “That’s entertainment, is it?”
Apparently dissatisfied with its potential for violence, Cara abandons the foam hammer, instead grabbing Adam’s bricks to launch back at him.
Then, right on cue, Cara’s face scre
