He opened the door and went in, as his housekeeper bowed.

He nodded at the woman, and headed upstairs.

“I thought they would stop calling by now.” He said, wiping sweat off his face with the hand towel.

“They said it’s about your wife.”

He stopped.

“She is still at the hospital?” He asked, surprised.

She had gone there a month ago. Was she purposely trying to stay back so she would not return to Tourris?

That was something a clever, deceitful woman like ...