Reborn, I Married the Man He Feared novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Key
Alexander had not slept, and at five in the morning he stopped trying.
He sat at his desk in the study with a lamp and a stack of paper, and he wrote the last page by hand.
He had been a man who signed things for twenty years.
He knew exactly what this one meant.
The funeral came back while he wrote, as it did every night.
He did not let it play through.
He only took from it what he would do differently, because that was the one use he could still make of it.
He would not stand at the back.
He would not hold his hat and say nothing to her father.
In the other life he had watched her coffin go down and thought, I will make this right, and then he had done nothing for seven years.
Now every promise he made, he put down in ink and put into her hands.
At seven, the housekeeper brought tea.
At seven-thirty, he heard Clara's step on the stairs.
He stood when she came in, because he always did.
She wore a grey cardigan over her nightgown, with her hair loose, and she looked at the desk.
It was covered with paper, laid out in rows.
"What is all this?" she said.
"Sit down, please. It won't take long."
She sat in the chair across from him.
He picked up the first sheet.
"This is the key to the Roland Park house. This is the key to the safe, and the combination, written out. The deed to this house is in there, and my mother's letters."
"Alexander."
"This is the key to the Tilghman Freight office on Pier Nine. This is every account the firm holds, with the passwords. This is a letter to my bank that gives you authority over all of them."
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