the car where I could watch the terminal.
At twenty-nine minutes past seven those doors opened and Troy came out with no luggage.
He looked up and down the rank and got into a taxi.
My husband had never been going to Thornbury.
And a few seconds later my phone went.
***You two home yet? It’s cold today. Stick the heating on the second you’re in.***
I screenshotted it and sent the whole thread to my work email, and I shared my location with Fen, who is my dispatch partner, and then I followed that taxi.
Our house is in Lark Hollow, which is quiet, and which my late father helped us do up.
He put a motion light with its own recorder above the back patio in 2021 after somebody took a bike off the drive.
Troy laughed at him for it.
And my dad said: “A house doesn’t