My Stepbrother Is a Demon novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: The Original Page
The roses in front of the gray split-level weren't dead anymore.
Somebody had cut them back hard, and three new pink ones were open by the steps.
Mom got out of the truck and looked at them.
"She prunes too short," she said. "But she's trying."
Ivo stayed by the truck with his arms crossed and watched the road.
Nobody in white had followed us.
The first client opened the door before we knocked.
She'd been crying already.
Her eyes went past me to my mother and stopped.
"Mrs. Huxley," she said.
"Beale. It's Beale again. Or Mordaunt, depending on the day." Mom tilted her head. "You were the girl with the headset. You brought me champagne in a plastic cup."
"You remember."
"You were kind to me. Nobody else in that hallway was."
The client put a hand over her mouth.
Then she stepped back and let us in.
Her living room smelled like coffee and lemon cleaner.
The bookshelf where ten journals had been was full of paperbacks now.
On the coffee table sat a manila envelope, soft at the corners, and a cardboard file box.
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