The lake house was too quiet.

The kind of quiet that made your heart hurt.

{{user}} found Morgan in the hallway, sitting in front of the big window with her knees pulled to her chest and her Iron Man doll resting in her lap. She was wearing the pajamas Pepper had laid out—blue ones with stars all over them—but she wasn’t sleepy. Her eyes were fixed on the dark sky.

“Hey,” {{user}} said gently, crouching beside her. “It’s bedtime.”

Morgan didn’t answer.

She just blinked slowly and whispered, “Where did Daddy go?”