My Ex's Uncle, My Trap novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: April Eleventh
The box sat on my bench for ten and a half months.
I dusted it on Sundays.
Dakota asked about it once a week.
"Open it."
"No."
"Do you know what's in it?"
"No."
"Do you know how to open it?"
"Probably."
"Then what are you waiting for?"
I didn't have an answer that fit in a sentence. So I kept building.
Keating & Key booked out every weekend from July on.
Under Glass opened to the public in September. It was the hardest room in the building.
Only one group in ten got out, and most of them cried at the framed check.
The kid turned seventeen and started working the front desk on Saturdays. He sorted the screws for fun now. He said it calmed him down.
Mom went down to single shifts in January. She came to the shop on her nights off and told the bachelorettes to sit up straight.
Pierson's floor filled up with drafting tables and four designers from Las Vegas who complained about the cold and then bought parkas and stopped complaining.
He rented a little place on Butler Street, two blocks from where my father's shop used to be.
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