And Marcus, who had spent part of the drive over searching his own emails, unlocked his phone and showed her.

Julian Vance-Montague.

Senior real estate consultant and managing director at a firm called Blue Horizon Asset Management.

A firm that Sarah, four months earlier, had recommended to Marcus herself, presenting it as the perfect solution for the empty, expensive Vineyard estate.

A firm whose slick rental proposal Marcus had, thankfully, some instinct making him cautious, never quite gotten around to signing.

It mattered, too, more than Marcus could say in the moment, that it was Evelyn’s door he had driven to.