. Maria's death hung over us like a shroud. Jennife

e his momen

room, his face etched with

embling slightly. "The darkness in this hous

thought they might get stuck. "A

cried, her nerves frayed. "

tered, but she fell silen

another vision last night. An earthquake. The ground will shake, and this house... this beau

ever the pragmatist and terrified of losing the family legacy, had insisted we relocate to one of t

xploded. A massive gas leak, the fi

d. He became the family's prophet.

s exact moment, I saw

ey and Nicole. It was a look of shared conspiracy, of a plan clicking

insignificant before. The day before Maria died, Nic

nk?" she had said to Jennifer over lunch. "Maybe Maria c

the garden was where the black w

ear that was utterly convincing. "Caleb, darling, we can't risk i

d. She was

rd knot of resolv

ng the same game. But I had