The wife he left behind
Daniel and Hannah, arriving breathless and pale, sitting close together on the small sofa.
And Dave, standing quietly near the box, waiting.
“Do you want to open it,” Cloe asked Daniel softly. “You don’t have to.”
“I do want to,” Daniel said. His hands were shaking slightly. “I’ve spent eighteen years opening other people’s mysteries. I think I owe myself this one.”
He lifted the lid.
Inside, on top of everything else, was a single envelope, the paper yellowed but intact, addressed in careful handwriting to Eleanor. Just the first name. Nothing else.
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