DOMINIC

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I waited until Elena left for her bath the next morning, then I went to find the woman who’d been in my wife’s ear, because I needed to look at her face while I worked out how much she had.

Andrea was in the study, watering the plant by the window that I’d never once asked her to water. She did things like that. Small useful things nobody told her to do, so that taking her out of any room felt like breaking something that worked.

“You’re in early,” I ...