Boss, Your Wife's a Whole Detective novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Dear Corrigan
I broke the seal with my thumbnail, sitting on the carpet with my back against his father's desk.
Two pages. Lined yellow paper, folded in thirds, written in the blue ballpoint of a man who pressed too hard.
"Kid," it began.
He had never once called me anything else.
"If you're reading this, I didn't get to tell you in person, and I'm sorry, because you'd have made me say it slow.
"For three years I took Lakeshore Mercantile's money to look the other way at Pier 14.
"I never knew what was in the crates. I made sure I never knew.
"A night watchman out there saw a truck he shouldn't have and filed a complaint. It came across my desk, and I buried it. He was dead inside the month.
"I haven't slept right since. That's why I'm done."
My eyes had stopped taking in the words. I made them go on.
"Today I took my copy of the books and this letter to Rowan Garvey. He's the only clean man in that building.
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