I visited my daughter without notice and was stunned! Her mother-in-law and husband were sitting and eating while she was washing dishes, shivering from the cold.

beetle—had learned to whisper inside her own home. I had come without warning because she had not answered my calls for three days. I still had her spare key. I had expected sickness, exhaustion, maybe an argument. Not this.

“Well,” Mark said, wiping his mouth when he noticed me. “Look who decided to break in.”

Emily spun around, her eyes widening.

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