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

Lila did not look at each other immediately. There was a moment — a held moment, specific and fragile — in which neither of them spoke, and in which everything that had been accumulating for three months occupied the space between them without being named.

Then Owen looked at Lila, and she was looking at the table, and her expression was the expression continue reading …