The Seventh Time novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Forty
I gave Killian the blue envelope on Friday at the dock, in front of the vending machine.
I had slept with it under my pillow for two nights.
He took it in both hands and didn't open it.
He read the front, "For Killian," and his thumb moved once across his mother's handwriting.
"Where was it?" he asked.
"In your father's safe."
He closed his eyes.
"Twelve years," he said.
"Yes."
"I'll read it when I can stand to." He slid it inside his jacket, against his ribs. "Not here. Thank you."
"Don't thank me. Thank her."
"I will."
It was Friday, which on the Horan dock meant the three o'clock meeting.
Nobody had ever called it a meeting.
Pete just stood on the crate, and forty people drifted over with thermoses and gloves.
Today he stood there longer than usual, scratching his beard, with a sheet of paper in his hand.
"Okay," he said. "Two things."
"Is it the schedule?" said the red-bearded loader.
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