“She unlocked the door and walked slowly through the place. It was empty. No one was home.Three muddy pairs of boots sat—appropriately enough—in the mudroom off the kitchen. Ingredients for cinnamon toast were out on the counters, and some spilled sugar had not been wiped up. The kitchen table was covered with drawings—both Cooper’s and Lucy’s.Cooper had turned the big downstairs den into a playroom and it was littered with big plastic toys and dolls and cars and other unidentifiable things, all... in bright, primary colors.The living room, though, was free and clear of toys, but the mantle of the fireplace was filled with framed photographs—pictures Cooper had taken of Ben and Lucy. And Josie. She was there, too, smiling warmly at Cooper through the lens of his camera.Even though Cooper and Lucy and Ben weren’t at home, the entire house hummed with life in a way that it never had when Cooper and Josie had come here alone. It was a house meant to hold a family.Where on earth could they be at ten o’clock in the morning, with the car still in the drive?The playground.There was a playground up at the top of the hill.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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