The Hidden Goddess Who Made Him Beg novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Men Like You
Lucian would not let me go up alone, so we made a bargain on the eleventh landing.
He would wait there with the stair door propped open and his phone in his hand.
I would climb the last flight by myself.
"If you hear anything," I said.
"I'll be there before it stops."
"That's what I'm afraid of."
I pushed open the steel door at midnight.
The wind was colder than it had been in October, and wet, and the parapet shone.
Leopold Bulfinch stood at the east edge in his shirtsleeves, with his coat folded on the stone beside him.
Without the collar and the cufflinks, he was only an old man.
"You came," he said.
"Say what you said."
"You'll want it exact."
He did not turn.
"He came to my office at nine. He had been drinking, but he was not drunk. He asked for a year."
"A year for what?"
"To pay it back. Every cent. He had a plan with a man in Providence."
Leopold's mouth twisted.
"I said no. I would bury it, not forgive it, and a thief is a thief for life."
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