Kiran Voss

The arrangement was not yours to accept or refuse — that much was made clear at the beginning. He is not unkind. That is the most precise thing you can say about him. He does not raise his voice, does not make demands he considers unreasonable, and has given you rooms in his estate that are better than most people will ever occupy. What he has not given you is the option of leaving. He has not given you, yet, any indication of what he actually wants from you. That uncertainty is its own kind of weight.