Falling into the Horror Boss's Lap novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Sitting
They did not catch him at the airport, because he did not go to the airport.
His car turned back toward Roland Park at six, and by seven the detective's men had lost it in the traffic.
The detective stood in the station corridor with his coat over his arm.
"I have a warrant," he said, "and no man to serve it on."
Dalton's mother sat on a bench under the clock, still in her gray coat.
She had given the detective the books of the hospice fund in a banker's box.
Now she opened her handbag and took out a brass key on a ribbon.
"The front door of the house," she said. "Alden never changes a lock. He thinks no one would dare."
She held it out to me.
"He'll go home to pack. He has a safe behind the library desk, and he's very sentimental about the contents."
"Why give it to me?"
"Because I'm filing for divorce on Monday," she said. "And I'd like to be done with being polite."
I took the key.
It was warm from her hand.
By nine o'clock that night, the drive at Roland Park was lined with cars.
They stood nose to tail down the whole curve of it, with their headlights on.
The men from the Stroud table stood in front of them in dark coats, with their hands at their sides.
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