the years she had known it. Arthur alone in room after room, surrounded by photographs of people who no longer came.
Now it was full of noise and movement and the specific, ungovernable energy of children who had just been given space to run.
It did not feel like a sad house anymore.
It felt like a house that had been waiting for exactly this.
The Decision
Three days later, they gathered again in Thomas’s office.
Kylie told him she was not selling the house.
The reaction was immediate. Daniel’s
