He never did.

And Maria had spent eight months not knowing whether the man she loved was hiding, or captured, or dead.

Chapter 9 — Why My House

“Why did you come to work in my house?” Daniel asked.

It was the question that had been forming since she said Andrew’s name — the improbability of it, the housekeeper who turned out to be the secret mother of his lost brother’s child.

Maria did not look away.