Chapter 24 - Divorce
The divorce settled after sentencing.
Property.
Savings.
House credits.
No children in common.
No custody.
That simplified one part.
Jocelyn had no legal rights to Emmett because she had never adopted him.
She requested no visitation in the divorce.
Good.
Her attorney asked for personal property.
Jewelry.
Furniture.
Artwork.
Fair.
I returned everything hers.
Including a chair she loved from Emmett’s room?
It had originally been hers.
I asked Emmett.
“Can Jocelyn take blue chair?”
He frowned.
“Mine.”
Receipt showed she bought it before marriage? But it had become his bedroom furniture. Property lawyers said trivial. I bought replacement and returned hers.
No battle over chair.
Then Cecily.
She asked to see Emmett.
He said no.
Not forever.
No now.
She accepted.
Six months later she sent a card to me:
Tell him I am sorry I slept in his room after he told me it was his.
No pressure.
Dr. Lowe eventually let me show him.
He read slowly.
“She sorry?”
“Yes.”
“Do I see?”
“Only if you want.”
“Not yet.”
Fine.
Then Maribel came by once after new job.
Emmett showed her airplane curtains.
She smiled.
“Looks right.”
He said:
“Door locks.”
“Good.”
Then:
“You sleeping garage?”
“No.”
She laughed.
“Good.”
No grand emotional scene.
May you like
The house became ordinary.
That was the goal.
