I nodded as she hurried across the tiles, her steps echoing into a jumbled mess. The door opened, then whooshed shut.
And I waited.
A minute. Five. Ten. Half an hour. Two hours later, she still hadn’t returned. She’d left everything perfect.
In a way.
Chapter 35
THE ESTATE LAWYER RECOGNIZED THE significance of his dead client and all that he possessed, so he contacted his most trusted broker, who then sent out the twenty-eight year old man with explicit instructions to sort everything, but get rid of nothing.
So the man left early on a Wednesday morning, making the trek from Athens to the house in the hills. He pulled out the keys that had been delivered to him the night prior and opened the front door. The hell, he thought, looking around the trashed room with the tacky couches and empty booze bottles and marijuana pipes and ladies undergarments strewn about.
He went right through that room, out the back door, finding peace along the walkway.
“What is that?” he muttered to himself, closing his eyes, inhaling deeply. “Jasmine? No, lavender.”
His mother’s favorite. Perhaps he’d pick some on the way out.
He reached the building in back and made his way in and down the hall and into a splendid office. The furniture was exquisite. The book collection was huge and looked older than the obvious antique desk.
What other treasures did the office hold?
He started with the desk, went through it drawer by drawer. He reached the last one, which contained only one item. A large tan envelope, made out to an address written in Cyrillic font. A piece of paper was taped to the envelope and it said that should something have happened to the owner of the house that reeked of foul play, the letter was to be mailed.
The guy held the envelope for a long time. He didn’t want to sort it because sorting it meant that he’d have to put it in a pile and the pile it belonged in meant it would go in the trash.
Now, the guy ignored the last part, the part about foul play, even though he knew the owner of the estate had met a gruesome death. Instead his romantic mind raced to other possibilities. That the guy who’d died had harbored a secret love and had never told the woman.
He couldn’t let that letter go to waste. No way.
So he crossed the room with the envelope in hand. He picked up his bag. Unzipped it. Stuffed the letter inside. And later that day, as he headed home after a long day of sorting and piling and deciding which stuff might get tossed and which should be sold, he stopped by a Hellenic Post office and slipped the envelope in the mail.
“Good luck,” he said, looking up. A stupid thing to say, he thought. And then he had reservations. Maybe some things were better left unsaid. Maybe that letter would destroy the bond of a happy family. There might be unintended consequences, no matter how noble his intentions had been.
THE END
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Other Books by L.T. Ryan
Jack Noble Series in Order
The Recruit
Noble Beginnings
A Deadly Distance
Thin Line
Noble Intentions Season One
When Dead in Greece
Noble Intentions Season Two
Noble Intentions Season Three
Never Go Home (Jack Noble)
Beyond Betrayal (Clarissa Abbot Thriller)
Noble Intentions Season Four
Mitch Tanner Series
The Depth of Darkness
Mitch Tanner #2 - Coming December, 2014
Mitch Tanner #3 - Coming 2015
Affliction Z Series
Affliction Z: Patient Zero
Affliction Z: Descended in Blood
Affliction Z: Book 4 - coming soon
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Jack Noble Series
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
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