The Visit

Georgia's POVSunlight pooled across the grounds like spilled honey, autumn just beginning to whisper its approach through crimson-tipped leaves. I stood at the window of the sitting room with my coffee going cold in my hand and watched the light move across the estate's wild edges and thought about how easily I had been slipping into this life.Too easily, perhaps.The thought arrived and I pressed it down.I had tried Michael again that morning. From the library, where the signal occasionally registered as something usable, I had stood by the tall window with my phone held at the angle that sometimes produced two bars and pressed call and listened to it ring.Six times. Voicemail.I had then tried the WiFi calling, which I had discovered on the third day and which worked intermittently, depending on something I could not identify. It connected. I heard the ringing on the other end, thin and digital and promising. And then, after two rings, a sound I had not encountered before. Not t

What Elena Knows

Georgia's POVThe consultation, or whatever it was, continued.I sat at the edge of it the way I had sat at the edge of so many conversations in the past two years, present in body, performing attention, while another part of me moved through the room quietly and filed what it found.Clarksdale spoke to Carlisle in the register of men who have known each other long enough to have a shorthand, references I could not fully decode, implications I could hear the shape of without accessing the content. The leather bag stayed open on the table, its arranged contents present but not yet explained to me in any direct way.My attention wandered to the doorway.Elena stood there.She had been doing this since I arrived, appearing in doorways, moving through the edges of rooms, her presence always slightly more deliberate than the role of housekeeper required. I had been noticing it without fully acknowledging that I was noticing it, filing it under the general category of a woman who had been i

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The Visit

What Elena Knows