To Let Part 2 Chapter 9 - The Fat in the Fire

In which Fleur returns to a household thick with unspoken tensions and encounters her father's quiet brooding over a past passion, while she grapples with the stirrings of her own desires amid the weight of family history. The summer heat presses upon them all as father and daughter confront the immovable barriers of love, loyalty, and the ghosts of former days that intertwine their fates.