person’s face in the first two seconds.
I opened the door and there he was—a man I had never met, but whose name Lily had mentioned in the car. The look on his face said everything.
Surprise. Guilt. Realization.
He hadn’t expected me to be there.
I stepped aside and asked him to come in. No shouting, no scene on the porch. Lily was in the next room, carefully continue reading …