He Waited for Fifteen Years novel · Chapter 25 of 48
Chapter 25: The Library
Nicholas read the message once more.
Then he called his grandmother from the middle of the tarmac.
She picked up on the first ring.
He put her on speaker and read the text to her in a flat voice.
The line was quiet for a moment.
"That's all he had to say?" she asked.
"That's all."
"Then don't answer it. I'll answer him myself someday, to his face."
"Your witness lands at nine. I made up the room over the kitchen. Nicholas, his boy is two hours from me in Billings."
"I know."
"Then go get him before that man thinks of it."
We flew back to Montana that night instead of New York.
Nicholas drove to Billings alone on Tuesday morning.
He came back at dusk with a pickup following his.
The son was twenty-two, tall and thin, with his father's hands.
He stood in the kitchen doorway and looked at the cast and the stitches for a long time.
"Who did that?" he said.
"Two men who work for Russell Hartley," his father said.
The son pulled out a chair and sat down across from him.
Neither of them said anything else.
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