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Stanton handed his briefcase and coat to Mariah, his parents’ housekeeper, and asked about her children.
“Oh, you know, now that the children are all grown up, it’s the grandchildren that take up all my time. Not that I’m complaining, mind you,” she replied. Mariah had been with his family for decades and, over the years, had become a confidante of his mother’s. Over the years, he’d heard quite a lot about Mariah’s grandchildren from his mother.
Ever since the gala, Stanton had anticipated a summons from his father, which he’d finally received in the form of a straightforward text stating a date and time. After putting his things away in a large closet, Mariah slipped through a door off the grand marbled foyer of his familial home. A wide wooden staircase led up to the first floor of
