My Billionaire Boss Won't Let Me Quit novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: Teddy

I texted him at six in the morning, and it was the first time I had written to him since Saturday.

Third landing, noon.

Come if you want to.

I didn't wait for an answer.

By ten past noon I stood in the gray fire door with my mother's card in my pocket.

The stairwell smelled of green paint and pine.

Lucas was already sitting on the third landing.

He had on jeans and a plain shirt, and he had been there long enough to leave a dent in the dust beside him.

He stood up when he saw me, and then didn't know where to put his hands.

"You came," he said.

"You said you'd answer everything once.

"I've got one more."

I held out the card.

He took it and read it standing.

His face went through confusion, and then something much quieter.

"Four years ago," he said.

"She saw a photograph."

"She knew who you were before she died.

"She kept it to herself, and she wrote 'let her find him first.'"

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