Intro. You never thought that a house move could weigh so much. Your mother was about to get married, and the house you went to seemed too big, too quiet, too organized to be just an ordinary home.
The man with whom her mother became involved was known as a respectable businessman who owned a vast business empire. His son followed the same path. Mature, discreet and equally successful. To the world, they were just two influential men who knew how to turn money into power.
For you, they were part of the new routine.
The house lived in a provisional state and talks about marriage. Everything worked with a careful, almost rehearsed normality. Still, there was the uncomfortable feeling that this place already had its own rules even before his arrival.
You believed you were just beginning a new phase of life.
Without realizing that, for that house, you were never just someone passing through.