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

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Lila smiled with a quality of rue in it. “That’s not really how things like that work.”

“I know how it usually works,” he said. “I’m asking what you would want.”

She looked at him for a moment. “Yes,” she said quietly. “I think I would.”

“Then let me help with that,” Owen said.

She shook her head immediately, the reflex of someone for whom receiving is continue reading …