His Billionaire Family Tested My Poverty, but Their Heir Was Broke novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Gate
The safe in the front hall held the gate remote, the phones and the car keys.
Peter was the heir, and Peter did not know how to open it.
"Try your father's birthday," Winifred told Arthur.
Arthur turned the dial slowly, and the safe made a flat little sound.
"Try 1929," Esther said. "The crash."
Peter tried it, and the safe sounded exactly the same.
"My wedding anniversary," Winifred said, and tried it herself, with great dignity.
The safe gave a third sound, which was shorter and ruder than the first two.
"It does that," Peter said, wiping his head. "It's wired to the library alarm. One more and the lawyers get a text."
The groundskeeper cleared his throat from the doorway.
He had his cap in both hands.
"It's the ham, ma'am," he said.
"I beg your pardon?" Winifred said.
"Forty cents," the groundskeeper said. "Zero, zero, four, zero."
"Old Mr. Endicott used to write it on the ham in the cold room, and it's on the combination plate under the dial."
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