Goodbye to the Man Who Betrayed Us novel · Chapter 15 of 32
Chapter 15: The Password
"Her birthday," I said. "Try her birthday."
Raymond typed it.
INCORRECT PASSWORD.
"Daniel's birthday."
He typed it.
INCORRECT PASSWORD.
The young mechanic came around the counter and leaned on Raymond's shoulder to see.
"Your anniversary," he said. "Ladies always use the anniversary."
Raymond gave him a long look over his glasses.
"We divorced, son."
"Oh. Right. Then maybe not that."
Rafael took the phone gently out of Raymond's hand before he could try a third time.
He scrolled down.
"Five tries," he said. "Then it locks you out for a day. Then it sends a reset to her email."
"Her email's been closed for ten years," Raymond said.
"Then we've got three left, and we don't guess."
We closed the gate.
I made coffee for people who should've been going to bed.
The crew went home at ten.
Rafael stayed.
Lily was asleep upstairs in my bed with her whale.
Raymond sat at the counter with a legal pad and wrote down everything he knew about a woman who'd been dead ten years.
Her first dog. Her church. The street she grew up on. Her favorite singer.
The name of the boat she said she'd buy when she retired and never did.
By midnight he'd stopped writing and was just looking at the list.
"I wasn't good to her," he said.
Rafael and I didn't answer.
"She was good to me anyway. She bought a camera so I wouldn't die on 101." He rubbed his eyes under the glasses. "And our son used it to kill a woman."
"He didn't use it," I said. "He forgot it was there."
"That's worse."
At one I tried the name of the boat.
INCORRECT PASSWORD.
Two left.
I put my head down on the counter.
Rafael's hand came and rested on the back of my neck.
He didn't rub. He just left it there, warm and heavy, and I let him.
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