He Signed the Divorce Without Reading Page Nine novel · Chapter 36 of 48
Chapter 36: Roses
The black car came up the dirt road at noon on Saturday.
I was on the porch swing with the three pages in a plastic sleeve on my knee.
Patricia sat beside me with a cup of tea she had not touched.
Inside the kitchen, behind the screen door, the older detective sat with a recorder running and her shoes up on a chair.
I had called her from the car, and she had driven four hours.
Nathaniel came out of the barn with a hammer in his hand.
He stopped at the bottom of the steps.
Harold Rhodes got out of the back seat in his black coat, with the tall lawyer a pace behind.
He looked around the yard slowly, at the apple tree and the dead furnace pipe and the garden gate.
"A picturesque property," he said. "Very little heating."
"Get off my land," I said.
"It's land, Mrs. Rhodes. It doesn't belong to anyone for very long."
"Winslow."
"As you like."
He came as far as the porch steps and stopped, with his gloved hands folded on the head of a walking stick he did not need.
Nathaniel put down the hammer.
It rang on the stone.
"Father."
"Son. You look tired."
"You signed a letter," Nathaniel said.
It came out level, and I knew how much it cost him.
"I sign many letters."
"This one is dated January, with a price and a Wednesday."
Harold's eyes moved to the plastic sleeve on my knee.
I held it up in the sun.
"Rhodes Maison intends to purchase all rights to the Tea Rose formulas for ninety million dollars," I read, "within five business days of the settlor's passing."
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