He Loved Me in Secret, Until I Became Someone He Could Never Have novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: The Ledger
He didn't know the combination.
I tore free of my mother and went through the hole in the plywood after him.
The lobby was black and roaring.
I dropped to my knees, where the smoke was thinner.
I could see Dario's boots, ten feet ahead, by the vault door.
"Dario!"
He spun around.
"You can't open it!"
I crawled to him across the hot floorboards.
The paint on the vault door had started to blister.
I pulled my sleeve down over my hand and grabbed the dial.
Right four times.
Left three.
I couldn't see the numbers, so I counted clicks the way my father taught me.
Right twice.
Stop.
"Now," I gasped.
Dario took the steel wheel in both bare hands and turned it.
I heard the sound he made.
The bolts drew back.
He hauled the door open with his whole weight, and the vault breathed out at us, hot but not burning yet.
The Ledger lay on the table where I'd left it.
Dario picked it up against his chest.
I grabbed the Venturi tin box with the slips inside.
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