The Professor's Captive Wife novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: What She Threw Away
I took him into the walk-in, because it was the only room in the café with a door that shut.
He stood between the butter and the cream with his breath showing, clutching the paper bag.
"It's cold in here," he said.
"It's private in here. Open it."
He unrolled the top of the bag and tipped it out onto a crate of eggs.
Strips of paper fell out, a dozen of them, long and thin from a shredder that hadn't finished.
And one sheet of dean's office notepaper, folded in quarters, with a coffee ring on the corner.
"The shredder jammed on Friday," he said. "She fed this in last, and it stuck halfway. She went to a meeting and told me to empty the bin. I emptied it into this bag instead."
I unfolded the sheet.
It was cream paper with the college crest at the top.
The handwriting was a slanted, elegant blue.
I'd seen it once before, on the card tucked into the crystal bowl she'd sent us as a wedding present.
Go after six. Floor empty.
Cash first, so he can refuse something.
Then the blouse.
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