Chapter 1: Day OneThe cabin smelled like dust and old wood, and the first thing I thought when I walked in was that I should have stayed home.The second thing I thought was that I hadn't known Silas would be there.He was standing at the kitchen counter with a mug in his hand, wearing a sweater with the sleeves pushed up, and looking at me like I was the one who'd shown up unannounced. Which, to be fair, I had."You didn't say you were coming," I said."I didn't know you were."We stood there for a beat, and the cabin ticked and settled around us, the way old buildings do when they've been empty too long."Right," I said, and dropped my bag by the door.—The plan had been simple.Drive up Friday after work, spend Saturday boxing up the last of the family things—the photo albums, the dishes, the box of my father's tools my mother still couldn't bring herself to sort through —and drive home on
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