He Loved Me in Secret, Until I Became Someone He Could Never Have novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: The Page
The pages smelled of smoke.
Nothing else had happened to them.
My great-grandmother's pencil was still there on the first page, faint and gray.
"Tullio said it burned," the Philadelphia boss said to nobody in particular.
"Tullio was wrong," said the Annapolis boss.
Tullio looked down the table at their faces one by one.
I watched him understand it.
They had all seen it already.
All of them, in their own offices, at their own kitchen tables, and not one had told him.
His captains looked at each other behind his chair.
Chiara's hand found the back of it and held on.
"Well," Tullio said. He found his laugh somewhere. "A miracle. God bless the firemen."
"God bless the pastry chef," I said. "It spent three weeks behind his ricotta."
I turned the pages until I reached the Venturi Family.
"The Keeper never shows one Family's page to another," I said. "Except when a bond has been drained. Then the Accord says it goes in front of the full table."
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