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

faintly of antiseptic and someone else’s detergent. Mara stands beside you, her hand hovering near yours but never quite touching. She knows you might forgive her one day. She also knows tonight is not that night.

Drone footage shows agents advancing through the dark fields behind the farmhouse.

Not the front.

Not the back.

The old well.

Because Caleb told continue reading …