Yes, everything was exactly as he’d left it, but it shouldn’t have been!
He’d heard the start of Purdy’s message as he made for the front door. When Purdy rang off, the presence of a new message on the machine should have been registered by a red light around the play button.
There was no light, meaning someone had played the message.
Or maybe the red bulb had simply failed.
He pressed the button and found himself listening not to Purdy but to a message Cap had left six days ago, reminding him to eat a casserole she’d put in his fridge.
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