Off Limits
Peter Ambrose was a ghost who left an impeccably structured wake.
I shuffled into the kitchen, the oversized gray slippers clacking a rhythmic, lonely beat against the pristine stone floors. The mess from my late-night sugar raid had completely vanished. The spilled Lucky Charms, the melting pints of ice cream, the black char from my burnt toast—all of it had been erased, likely by some silent, specialized cleaning crew that operated within the precise parameters of Peter’s empire. The white quartz island was so clean it practically mirrored the overcast Seattle sky bleeding through the floor-to-ceiling glass.