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Book Two, Chapter 28: Sebastian's Secret
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The Day I Walked Again Was The Day I Lost My Husband Book Two, Chapter 28: Sebastian's Secret
Damien did not move.He had not moved since Ramirez had said Sophia's name, and I could see the shape of the next twenty minutes on his face already, and I knew that if I sat in that room for another one of them I was going to give him something I could not take back later."Damien.""Go.""I am not leaving you in this room.""You are leaving me in this room because if you sit here for the next hour and a half comforting me, Sophia gets on a plane and Sebastian gets a phone call. Go, Evelyn."I stood up."Ramirez.""Yes.""Find her. Not the airports. Not the marina. The Palm Beach house. She will not have left the country because she does not think anybody has looked at her yet. Send two of your people down there quietly and hold her at that house until I tell you what I want done with her.""On what charge.""Do it without a charge. I will give you one by tonight."Ramirez did not blink."Yes."He held the door for me.I did not look back at Damien.I could not.The car was already r
The Day I Walked Again Was The Day I Lost My Husband Book Two, Chapter 28: Sebastian's Secret
Damien did not move.He had not moved since Ramirez had said Sophia's name, and I could see the shape of the next twenty minutes on his face already, and I knew that if I sat in that room for another one of them I was going to give him something I could not take back later."Damien.""Go.""I am not leaving you in this room.""You are leaving me in this room because if you sit here for the next hour and a half comforting me, Sophia gets on a plane and Sebastian gets a phone call. Go, Evelyn."I stood up."Ramirez.""Yes.""Find her. Not the airports. Not the marina. The Palm Beach house. She will not have left the country because she does not think anybody has looked at her yet. Send two of your people down there quietly and hold her at that house until I tell you what I want done with her.""On what charge.""Do it without a charge. I will give you one by tonight."Ramirez did not blink."Yes."He held the door for me.I did not look back at Damien.I could not.The car was already r
The Day I Walked Again Was The Day I Lost My Husband Book Two, Chapter 27: The Knife
I did not speak for a long time.Leonard let the silence sit. He was too old and too tired to pretend it was anything other than the tool it was.Then I stood up."Noelle is going to be in this room with you for the rest of the day. She is going to walk you through every piece of Sebastian's public paper going back to the year you sent Ordonez to Belleville. She is going to have your accountants and your two lawyers on speaker. She is going to tear the man in that footage apart in this study before either of us goes to sleep."Noelle straightened off the wall."And you.""I am going to Damien.""Ev.""They arrested him for a killing carried out with a knife bought in Newark. Newark is the same city Ordonez sat in for five and a half years waiting for me to come up his stairs. That is not a coincidence and I do not have time to pretend it might be. Somebody has been placing evidence around us for years and I am done letting them place it while I sit and watch a screen."Leonard nodded
The Day I Walked Again Was The Day I Lost My Husband Book Two, Chapter 26: Before the Crash
I did not walk down Ordonez's stairs.I ran.I had the pouch inside my coat and my hand on the rail and I did not care who was watching from the bakery windows, and when I hit the sidewalk Noelle was already out of the car with the door open and Sebastian's man was already turning the engine over."Ev.""Drive.""Where.""My grandfather's house."Noelle did not ask a second question.The car was on the highway before I could open my mouth to say the thing sitting in it. Then my phone rang.Leonard Hart. Not Marcus. Not the office. My grandfather's private line, the one that rang inside the study at the far end of the house where nobody was allowed to bring a phone.I put it on speaker so Noelle could hear."Grandpa.""Come to the house.""I am already on the way.""I know.""You have been keeping this from me for five years.""I have been keeping this from you for five years.""Grandpa.""Come to the house, Evelyn. Do not have this conversation on a road."He hung up.I sat in the bac
The Day I Walked Again Was The Day I Lost My Husband Book Two, Chapter 25: The Investigator
I did not thank Harrison.I stood up and I picked up the notebook and I told him I would return it inside the week, and Noelle put a card on his desk with one number on it and told him to call the number if any face he had turned away in the last six years came back through the door.We were in the car by ten."Marcus. Miguel Ordonez. Newark. Private investigator, licensed at least five and a half years ago. Not currently listed. I need an address by noon and I need to know whether he still breathes."I could hear Marcus breathing on the line."Give me forty minutes."He gave us thirty two.Miguel Ordonez lived in a two family in the Ironbound, above a bakery that had been in the same window for forty years. Marcus had sent an address and a note that read, He retired five years ago. He never worked again. Has not left the block in eleven months except to buy bread.I did not send anybody in ahead of me.I went up the outside staircase alone and I knocked with the side of my hand and I
The Day I Walked Again Was The Day I Lost My Husband Book Two, Chapter 24: The Medical Secret
I did not answer Marion for a long moment.I sat on the corner of the child sized desk in the empty classroom and I looked at the manila folder with my name on it and I let the pieces come apart inside my chest in the order they wanted to come apart.Doctor Elias Harrison. Harrison was the man who had sat across from my grandfather in a hospital corridor six weeks after my accident and told him, in the careful measured voice of a doctor trained to protect a family from hope, that his granddaughter was very likely never going to walk again. My grandfather had gone directly from that corridor to his lawyer and told him to make copies of the report and send one to my old school, because the man believed in paper the way other men believed in prayer.Adrian did not know about Sterling. Nobody outside Noelle's clinic did.But everybody in the world who had ever cared to look at a medical journal or a newspaper archive knew about Harrison.Harrison had written the report Adrian had spent si
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