[POV: Lewis] [Location: Edinburgh — Home / Various]The days between Christmas and New Year had a specific texture.Not quite holiday, not quite ordinary. The house ran on a looser schedule — later breakfasts, no school runs, the particular freedom of a week that didn't require full accountability from anyone.Lewis had always liked this week. He'd been working in some capacity for most of it for twenty years, but this year he'd blocked it out deliberately. No board calls, no Sterling Industries correspondence, nothing that required him to be in professional mode until January second.He was paying attention to the week as itself.On the twenty-seventh, Rose's phone rang at half nine in the morning.He was in the study. He heard her answer from the hallway — a single short conversation, her voice controlled in the way she controlled things now, which was different from the wall she used to hide behind. The control had become something more functional. Less defensive.She appeared in
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