He Called My Inheritance a Forgery in Front of Three Hundred Guests, Then Took Every Blow Meant for Me novel · Chapter 37 of 40
Chapter 37: Godmother, Again
"For Leonard," I said. "What could she possibly say for Leonard?"
"That your father was drinking last spring," the detective said. "That he was confused. That he told her things that never happened."
"That notebook is the heart of our case, Ms. Bradbury."
"She can stand up and call it a drunk man's diary."
"Would a jury believe her?"
"She's sixty-seven, she wears pearls, and she held you at your christening," the detective said. "What do you think?"
She hung up.
The snow kept falling on the harbor.
Kendrick took the phone out of my hand and put it in my coat pocket for me.
"Don't go to her," he said.
"You know I'm going."
"I know," he said. "Don't go alone."
"You've got a grill at five."
He looked at the diner, dark behind us, and then at me.
"Then call me after," he said. "I'll buy a phone."
I drove home the next morning.
I didn't go up the hill.
I went straight to Stockbridge.
The white clapboard house was on the same side street.
The roses by the green door were wrapped in burlap for the winter.
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