YOUR SISTER TOLD YOU TO HIDE IN THE ATTIC AND NOT TELL YOUR HUSBAND—THEN YOU FOUND THE PASSPORTS UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS

is coming up.

“Elise,” he calls, closer now. “I know you’re scared.”

You reach the vent and pull.

It doesn’t move.

The attic latch rattles.

Caleb tries the door.

Locked.

“Open the door,” he says.

You pull harder.

A screw bites into the bottom edge.

Caleb’s voice tightens. “Elise, open it right now.”

There he is.

Not the husband.

The man underneath him.

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