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

using it — became a collection of shadows and familiar sounds, the creak of the third stair and the particular sigh of the kitchen door and the white noise of the air system. He could move through those things without fully inhabiting them. He could pour a glass of water, check the notes his housekeeper left about the girls’ day, and go to bed without continue reading …