"She hesitated, wiping her hands off on her apron. "I'm not sure if I'll be here when you get back. This place is a little" it's a little much for me.—She didn't have to tell him how it was. He had lived here for years, in a house that wanted to be silent until the silence was broken by a certain step and a certain voice, in a house holding its breath for someone's return. If anyone held their breath long enough, they were dead."
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