Between Us and Ashes
"Let me start at the beginning."
Edward Stone, she told me, had built his real estate empire over forty years. He had done it with ruthlessness and talent and the specific kind of discipline that doesn't leave much room for warmth. He had married Caleb's mother, Eleanor, when he was twenty-six and she was twenty-three, and he had loved her in the way that men like Edward loved — completely at first, and then with increasing distance as the ambition expanded and the marriage contracted around it.
Eleanor had left when Caleb was eleven. Not dramatically — she had simply stopped being there, gone back to her family in Boston, filed quietly and taken nothing except her son for school holidays. E
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