Sold to a Marseille Don, So He Knelt at My Father's Grave novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Coat
My uncle's chair stood pushed back from the table, and his two bottles stood unopened beside his plate.
He had been through the door before anyone else could move.
Cecilia's red coat was gone from the hook, and her glass was still full.
Nobody at the long board ate the thirteen desserts.
Marie-Ange sat down slowly, with her plaster arm on her knee.
"The kitchen," she said. "Both of you. I will say it once, and I will say it sitting down."
We followed her through the swinging door.
The black stove was still lit, and the room smelled of dried figs and orange peel.
She lowered herself onto the stool where she must have sat on the night of the fog.
Then she took a green cloth ledger from the shelf above the bread bin and laid it on the table.
"Pascal's safe," she said. "He left me the key and one instruction. Open it if he was dead and Antone had asked the right question."
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