Curvy Bride Claimed by the Mafia Don: He Made the Men Who Laughed at Her Kneel novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: Returning the Keys

Gail was waiting for us in the back office of Keogh Bridal.

She sat at my aunt's old oak desk with a banker's box on the floor beside her chair.

The lamp was off.

She had sat there in the dark with her hands folded in her lap, and when she heard the front bell she didn't get up.

Hazel flipped on the overhead light, and Gail winced at the glare.

"Hi, honey," she said.

I didn't answer her.

I stood in the doorway with my arms crossed and my heels still on from the cleaner's, and I waited.

Gail put a ring of keys on the blotter in front of her.

There were nine of them on a brass loop.

An old paper tag in my mother's handwriting was still tied to one of them with red string.

"The front door," she said. "The back door. The alley gate, the safe, the cabinet with the ledgers, the sewing room."

"Who gave you the safe?"

"Your mother did, when she was sick. She told me to hold on to it for you."

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