He Thought I'd Forget novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: Free
Every camera on the steps turned toward me.
I stepped around my attorney.
"There's a camera in that lobby," I said. "Above the mailboxes. It records everything."
"Ask for the tape," I said. "That's all. Just ask for the tape."
Byron's face didn't move.
But his lawyer looked at him, and that was enough.
The doorman didn't wait to be asked.
He came to the salon the next morning on his day off, in a windbreaker, holding a thumb drive in a sandwich bag.
"Management said they'd need a subpoena," he said. "So I asked my nephew how to copy a file."
"I don't want trouble. I just don't like being part of a lie."
I'd brought him a loaf of zucchini bread wrapped in foil.
"Mrs. Aldane," he said at the door. "The building's real quiet without you yelling at the elevator."
"I never yelled at the elevator."
"The baby did," he said. "I miss the baby."
My attorney sent the footage to every reporter who'd been on those steps.
By dinner it was on the local news.
Gray, silent, from above.
Me sliding a blue book off the counter.
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