Chapter 62ANNALISAThe morning had been quiet.That was the thing I kept returning to afterward, the fact that it had started quietly, with Eli eating breakfast and the sun coming through the kitchen window and Dominic making coffee with the focused attention he gave everything, and nothing about that morning had announced what the rest of the day was going to be.I had a list.Things the estate needed, things I had been putting off during the preparation for the Greenwood visit and the visit itself and the three days of documentation and the drive home. Practical things. Food stores, a replacement lamp for the annex workspace, the particular brand of soap Eli had used since he was born and which the estate had run out of the previous week.Dominic had offered to come.I had said yes because saying no would have required a reason and I did not have one that was honest, and because the truth was that I did not particularly want to be alone in a public space in the current climate, eve
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