A widowed businessman returns early to his quiet mansion, ready to confront the housekeeper, but what he sees changes everything

walls, and he excused himself for what he said would be five minutes and instead went downstairs and got in his car.

He drove home.

He turned off the main road and onto the long gravel approach to the property with no particular plan for what came next — he would check on the girls, he told himself, do some work from home, give himself a slightly earlier continue reading …