The Safekeep

Isabel took the car to the city, parked behind the church. Isabel never had reason to worry: Louis never did seem to want for a family, never did seem to want the house at all. Go on.” Then Johan called the house on the phone and Isabel thought it would be Louis, and it wasn’t, and she was so giddy with relief she laughed and happily told Johan he better not come by, that she would be gone to visit family for a while. Isabel had thought she meant—that she had meant family.