The Night He Left the Syndicate, I Took His Chair novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: Burn the Book
She turned around and saw me.
The crying stopped.
She lowered the phone, still connected, and pressed it against her coat.
"How long have you been standing there?"
"Since 'I'm so scared.'"
Her eyes were perfectly dry.
"He'll believe me," she said. "He always believes the one who's crying."
"He believed me for ten years," I said. "I never cried once. Look where it got me."
She stared at me.
Then she got into her little white car and drove out of the lot too fast, the phone still pressed to her chest.
Orson would come for this, sooner or later.
Which meant the book couldn't wait for March.
On Monday Zeke carried the pink slip to Boston in an envelope.
The attorney general's woman called me that night.
"Not yet," she said. "I want her for the ferry money too. Her father's bookkeeper has been thinking about calling me."
"The gray-haired one."
"She called twice and hung up. She'll call a third time."
On Tuesday at eleven at night I opened the safe in the yacht club's back room.
I took out the loan book and carried it down the hill to the diner under my coat.
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