PART 24

A summer storm knocked out power across our neighborhood.

We sat in the living room with battery lanterns and listened to rain rattle the shutters.

It reminded me of the night I found the photograph, when Gregory’s secrets seemed to fill every dark corner of the house.

Paige took out a deck of cards.

Violet, who was visiting, insisted she remembered an old game Rose used to win by cheating just enough to be funny.

We tried to recreate it, failing spectacularly.