Chapter 17
Ollie returned home to an empty house. Filled with a crazy kind of hope, he made a tour, opening and closing doors, praying he’d find Hank or Rose perhaps napping in one of the rooms. Logic told him with all the turmoil that had gone on that day, napping was unlikely, but still he wanted so much for them to be there that he didn’t lose hope that they weren’t there until he had looked in the very last room. He came away from the final room dejected.
He remembered, suddenly, that he and Hank had a dinner to cook and serve that night on Mercer Island. Oh God, there was no way…Feeling fatigue like he’d never felt in his whole life, he trudged into the living room, where he had left his phone, and made a call, told his clients they would not be there, made up a quick story about a
