"Daddy says that government work is we-rarding. I think that means it's fun for grown ups," Lucy said matter-of-factly, adjusting her tone so as not to attract Allegra's further ire.
"No, she'll be going to his mother," Allegra told Gemma. "It wouldn't be fair for me to keep her during the day if it's his week, because I have a job where I can take her with me. It would mean I got her seventy five percent of the time, effectively, and that's not what we agreed on."
No matter how she felt about Percy's parents, she was determined to keep everything equal and equitable between them, because the second she started being unreasonable, it opened the door for him to be unreasonable, and that was the last thing she wanted.