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One Night to Forever novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: The Bar Photo

The photographer's gallery arrived at 5:48 in the morning, six hundred and twelve frames in a folder.

We sat in the penthouse kitchen with Ford's laptop on the counter and a pot of coffee going cold.

Desmond scrolled with one hand and held my fingers with the other.

"Ballroom, ballroom, the ice sculpture, my uncle asleep in a chair," he said.

"Start at midnight," Ford said. "The lobby bar. Anyone who left the ballroom would pass it."

Frame 311 showed a bartender polishing a glass.

Frame 322 showed two men laughing over whiskey.

Frame 340 was the one.

The time stamp in the corner said 12:55:14 a.m.

A woman sat on a stool at the end of the lobby bar.

Her back was to the camera and her face was turned toward the elevators.

She wore a silver slip dress I had never seen and a coat folded over her knee.

The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of One Night to Forever are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.

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