Millicent smiled, not knowing where to start. 'Things are...better, getting there I think.' She smiled. 'Justin is almost finished with the new house, so we might be moving soon. I think a new start for all of us would be good.'
'As for Ella she is happy and well.' That was an understatement for how happy she was about having them all in the same house again. She talked of it non-stop. 'She's very excited about the house. You and Ben should come over when it's finished. And Ernie, of course,' she hastened to add, realising that she'd nearly forgotten.
'We'll do a sleep-over soon, I'm sure they'd all like it. Sometime when things settle down a bit again, perhaps.' Right now she didn't like letting Ella out of her sight. She'd been away from her for so long. That was going to change though. Everything was going to change.
The house would be finished, they'd get their lives back together - the three of them - and from then on everything would be all right. She smiled at Terry, for the first time in a long time feeling confident about the future.