“The woman who used to work in the kitchen at Hardwick? The one who’s job I took over?” “Yes!” “If she disappeared so suddenly, why didn’t you go in and check on her?” “Because … she was inside with Zeno. They were standing together, almost intimately. His hands were holding her face while he talked to her, and she was nodding intently. It looked pretty serious, but I have no idea what could have been going on. Maybe he happened to see her as well and decided to confront her about leaving so abruptly?” The food I ate for lunch solidifies in my stomach. I don’t buy into coincidences. In a city of millions, what are the chances that he happened to run into his missing housekeeper? Practically zero. But what does that mean? Did he know from the beginning where she was, or did he track her dow
