I Vanished with the Don's True Heir novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: The Kneeler
"The ledger," I said.
"Gone, if it was there." Livio was already pulling on his coat. "Passport, deeds, cash. Whatever was in it."
The stairs creaked behind us.
Orsola stood on the bottom step in her robe, with her reading glasses on the cord.
She'd heard every word. She always did.
"Was the drawer drilled," she said, "or dialed?"
"Drilled."
"Then they never had the number." She came down the last step. "And they got exactly what he wanted them to get."
Livio stared at her.
"What does that mean?"
"Get the truck," his mother said. "I'm going home."
We drove up to Chestnut Hill at six in the morning.
The gates opened for Livio's face. The guard at the booth was one of the old ones, and he didn't look at the woman in the passenger seat until the truck was through.
The house was grey stone, three floors, with the long gravel drive and the steps where a six-year-old had once scowled at a camera.
Orsola got out of the truck and stood at the bottom of those steps.
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