HER MOTHER’S HUSBAND
Sacred, undisturbed, inviolable.
So: not Mum's morning yet.
I lay on my back and thought about going back to sleep and knew I wasn't going to.
The estate was quiet in the specific way it was quiet on weekend mornings, different from weekdays, when the distant sounds of Dominic's work began early: the controlled footsteps on the study corridor, the soft close of a door, the sound of his voice on calls that started at seven because the markets that occupied his mornings had no interest in his domestic schedule. Weekdays the house woke with him, oriented around his movement through it. Weekend mornings, particularly Sunday, the house was just itself — unhurried, ambient, requiring nothing.
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