He Thought I'd Forget novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: The Safe
The attorney didn't ask me if I was sure.
She asked me the combination, and underlined it on her legal pad.
"Your sister is your guardian," she said on speaker that night. "A guardian may collect her ward's personal property from the marital home. With a civil standby. Two officers, in daylight, while he's at work."
"Tomorrow," Jeanine said.
"At ten. His clinic hours are posted online."
At ten on Wednesday the doorman held the lobby door open for us.
Jeanine in her smock with a stack of flattened boxes.
Clark with a hand truck.
Me.
And two officers.
One was the young policewoman from Jeanine's porch, the one who'd written it down.
She nodded at me in the elevator.
"Ma'am. You look different."
"I got a haircut."
"That's not what I meant," she said.
The doorman had given Jeanine the spare key without being asked.
"He changed the locks Friday," he said. "Building rules say I keep a spare. So I keep a spare."
4D smelled like Byron's soap and nothing else.
Alexis's dresses were gone from my closet.
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