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

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Sadie arrived at his other side. “Mine is the garden,” she said, pointing back at her easel. “Except I made the roses purple because I wanted to. Lila said that’s allowed.”

“It is absolutely allowed,” Owen said.

He heard himself say it — the words arriving from somewhere that was not the managed, careful part of himself that had been doing most of the continue reading …

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