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Tempted by my brother-in-law. SEALED
Chapter 119SEALEDPOV: NikolaiThe Law Society archive was in a basement too.A different basement, climate controlled, the kind of facility that took the preservation of paper seriously rather than as an afterthought, and the woman who met us there had been told the broad shape of why a forty year old box from a dissolved chambers had become significant and was treating the whole thing with appropriate gravity.The box was on a table in a small viewing room.Plain. Sealed with tape that had gone brittle with age. The note on the outside in handwriting that was not Margaret's, which meant a solicitor or clerk had written the receipt instructions after she sent it.Open when the time is right.And you will know when that is.I looked at it for a long moment.Hazel was beside me. Kaden on my other side. The two investigators standing slightly back, giving us the room the way they had given us the room at every significant moment in this investigation, understanding that some things nee
Tempted by my brother-in-law. SEALED
Chapter 119SEALEDPOV: NikolaiThe Law Society archive was in a basement too.A different basement, climate controlled, the kind of facility that took the preservation of paper seriously rather than as an afterthought, and the woman who met us there had been told the broad shape of why a forty year old box from a dissolved chambers had become significant and was treating the whole thing with appropriate gravity.The box was on a table in a small viewing room.Plain. Sealed with tape that had gone brittle with age. The note on the outside in handwriting that was not Margaret's, which meant a solicitor or clerk had written the receipt instructions after she sent it.Open when the time is right.And you will know when that is.I looked at it for a long moment.Hazel was beside me. Kaden on my other side. The two investigators standing slightly back, giving us the room the way they had given us the room at every significant moment in this investigation, understanding that some things nee
Tempted by my brother-in-law. FIVE
Chapter 118FIVEPOV: HazelKaden said it and the kitchen went quiet.Not dramatically. Just the specific pause that happened when something arrived that required everyone in the room to set down what they were doing and look at it.My father put his coffee cup down.My mother stopped at the counter.Iris looked around at the change in the room and decided it did not concern her and went back to whatever she had in her hand.I looked at Nikolai.He looked at Kaden."A fifth copy," Nikolai said."The solicitor's records," Kaden said. "The investigators went through everything this morning. They found a payment. Dated nineteen eighty three. From Margaret to a courier service." He paused. "The courier service no longer exists but the investigators traced the records through the company's dissolution filing. The delivery address is in the city.""What address," I said.He told me.I looked at Nikolai.He looked at me."That is the university," I said."Yes," Kaden said. "The records depar
Tempted by my brother-in-law. GENEVA
Chapter 117GENEVAPOV: HazelHer name was Dr Claire Osei.She was fifty three and she had flown overnight from Geneva with two clinic directors and a folder of twenty years of research and she was sitting in the estate library at eleven in the morning with the specific energy of someone who had been waiting to be in exactly this room and was not going to waste the time now that she was in it.She looked at the folder of Margaret's documentation on the table.She had not touched it yet.She was looking at it the way you looked at something you had been approaching from a long way away."Rajan Anand told me about a compound," she said. "In a conference in nineteen ninety four. He was already ill by then and he knew it and he was trying to get the information out before he could not." She looked at her hands. "He said he had found something on a mountain with a colleague who was no longer alive. He said the colleague had found the secondary application first and had documented it but th
Tempted by my brother-in-law. EGGS
EGGSPOV: NikolaiMy father had opinions about eggs.This was the first thing I learned about him in a domestic context and it was both completely surprising and immediately recognisable in the way things were when you had been away from someone long enough that their specific qualities became new information even though they had always been there.He believed eggs should be cooked slowly.Lena believed they should be cooked at the right heat which was not low.They were standing on opposite sides of this question at the kitchen counter when Hazel and I came in and the specific quality of the disagreement was one I recognised from the workshop, the unhurried certainty of a man who was used to doing things at his own pace, except that Lena was also unhurried and also certain and neither of them was going to be moved.I stood in the doorway.Hazel stood beside me."He has been like this since six thirty," she said quietly."What time did he arrive," I said."Six fifteen," she said."He
Tempted by my brother-in-law. RIDGE
Chapter 115RIDGEPOV: HazelWe went the next morning.Just us, the way Nikolai had said. No investigators, no family, no calls unless something was urgent enough to justify breaking the agreement we had made at the dinner table without saying it out loud.The city was doing its Saturday morning thing when we drove through it, slower than weekdays, the streets having a different quality of purpose, and the ridge road took us up and out of the density of it into the part of the city that was not quite city anymore.The house was at the end of the street the same way it had been yesterday.But yesterday we had gone there as buyers and today we went as the people it belonged to and that was a different kind of arriving.Nikolai had the key.Vera had given it to him last night before we left, produced it from her cardigan pocket as if she had been carrying it for some time, which she probably had, and handed it to him without ceremony and gone back to her chair.He unlocked the front door
Tempted by my brother-in-law. KADEN
KADENPOV: HazelI stood up.Not a decision. Just what my body did when it needed to think and sitting felt like accepting something before I understood it.Nikolai looked at me.I held the phone tighter."Say that again," I said."I was the one who brought your name to the table," Kaden said. "Whe
Tempted by my brother-in-law. TABLE
TABLEPOV: HazelMy mother cooked like she was angry at the kitchen.Not actually angry. That was just how she cooked, with the focused intensity of someone who needed all of it to go right and was not going to leave that to chance. She moved between the stove and the counter and the refrigerator w
Tempted by my brother-in-law. SOLICITOR
SOLICITORPOV: HazelI looked at her for a long moment."You have been holding my mother's account for eleven years," I said."Yes," she said."You are the solicitor in Edinburgh," I said."I have an office there," she said. "I maintained it after my husband's death for exactly this kind of purpose
Tempted by my brother-in-law. VERA
VERAPOV: HazelI ended the call and sat with it for a moment.Iris was still asleep against my chest and the mountain was doing its grey indifferent thing around us and Nikolai was watching me with the particular patience of a man who had learned that I needed a moment before I could be useful aft
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