Double Life of a Cell Block King novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: The Offer

I did not hang up.

I pressed the flip phone against my ear, and I got to my feet using Amos's headstone.

The bread truck was already rolling across the grass with its hazards blinking.

The landlord's cousin leaned out of the window.

"Get in. He says he's twelve minutes behind me."

I climbed into the cab, and the ledger rode on my knees.

"Where to?"

"Wherever Eugenia's car goes."

The cousin put his own phone on the dashboard, set it to record, and held mine on speaker beside it.

A chair scraped on the line, and a heavy door closed.

Then the sounds of an expensive room came through, ice in a glass and the whisper of a thick rug.

"Sit down, dear," Eugenia said. "Please. You've had a shock."

"You had me kidnapped," Katie said.

Her voice was hoarse, but it was steady.

"I had you brought to my office, which I would call hospitality. Take that tote."

"It's empty," a man said. "Just a sweater."

"Of course it is. She's clever."

A cup touched a saucer.

"I know you spoke to my stepson this morning," Eugenia said. "I know you have been reading Gordon's handwriting.

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