Then some remarks began to come up regularly.
"Sarah lets me stay up longer in the evening."
"Sarah says we don't have to make her bed."
Every time Jennifer mentioned it to her ex-husband, the response was the same: "You're doing too much, Jen." Then she swallowed her worries. She tried to believe it.
But little by little, Emma no longer came to ask her mother for help with her lessons. *"Sarah has already explained it to me." * She now refused to let her hair be styled. *"Sarah does it better than you." * One weekend, she came home with a bracelet — Sarah was wearing her double on her wrist.
Jennifer smiled during the day. She cried at night, once her daughter was asleep.
