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The Last Look Chapter 8
Another holiday had come around.The sky over Daim was a brilliant blue. A breeze off Lake Silvermere carried a hint of moisture, cool against the skin.Danielle sat on a bench at Willowshore Park, a picture frame resting on her knees.It was the photograph of Grandma shelling nuts. Sunlight fell on the glass, catching in a small patch of glare that landed perfectly on Grandma's smiling face."Grandma, the breeze in Daim feels so nice. You always said you wanted to come here. I kept telling you I'd bring you when I had time."She lowered her head with a small smile and wiped the fingerprints off the frame with her sleeve."I brought the dried bayberries, too. I'll eat the ones you saved for me little by little. There's no rush."Some tourists passed by. They noticed a young woman holding a picture frame and talking to it while facing Lake Silvermere. They glanced at her a little longer, then moved on.Danielle sat there all afternoon, watching the sun slide down from the peak o
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Danielle walked out of the courtyard with her suitcase. When she reached the village entrance, she turned back for one last look at the old house where she'd lived for twenty years.Then she called a real estate agent."Put the property on the market."Six months later, Houston sat in the waiting area of an office building.His suit was new, but he had tried tying his tie three times and still couldn't get it right. His secretary was flipping through the project proposal beside him and spoke in a low voice."Mr. Rodgers, this investment firm is our last chance. If we can't secure this round of funding..."He waved a hand, and the secretary fell silent.In the three months following the disaster, half the company's employees had left. Bolton had taken the core team to another company, and clients had gradually terminated their contracts. After Heather was fired, she became unable to find a foothold in the industry. The previous month, Houston had seen her on the street wearing a
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Houston stood on the steps outside the restaurant, still clutching the divorce papers. The wind lifted the first page, making it flap noisily.He drove back to Daim that very night. He didn't stop once during the seven-hour drive through the mountains. By daybreak, the car had come to a crooked stop at the entrance to the village.The funeral tent still stood in the yard. White flowers and sympathy wreaths lined the walkway, their ribbons stirring in the morning breeze. Rain and dew had darkened the ground near the gate.He knelt before Grandma Yvette’s memorial portrait and pressed his forehead against the brick floor, the dull thud breaking the silence.Grace emerged from the inner room. When she saw him, she paused in surprise. Without saying a word, she turned and went back inside.He knelt for the entire morning. When his knees went numb, he shifted his position and kept kneeling.At noon, Danielle arrived. She wore a faded black padded coat. Her peripheral vision caught sig
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After the delivery courier left, no one at the table touched their food.The slideshow continued, one wedding photo after another rolling across the screen.Houston stared at the black picture frame in his hands. Grandma's smiling face looked back at him, just as it always had whenever he walked through her door.His colleague Bolton Lewis spoke first, "Houston, when did your wife's grandmother pass away?"Houston opened his mouth, but no sound came out."I'll tell you."The voice came from the doorway. Everyone turned.Elina stood there, holding up her phone with its screen pointed at the receiver connected to the projector."Danielle asked me to deliver this. She said Houston likes to maintain a respectable image in front of other people, so she wants everyone to see what that image is really made of."The slideshow changed.The first image was a screenshot from the train station's security cameras. The timestamp read 4:03 a.m.Danielle was kneeling on the floor, her lapto
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I took each item out, unfolded it, smoothed it flat, and placed it in the brazier.The flames licked at the corners of the clothes, curling the fabric and turning it black. The plaid shirt burned the slowest. One of the buttons at the collar snapped in the fire, shot to the ground, rolled twice, and came to a stop.The memorial lamp in front of Grandma Yvette's portrait flickered.I looked at her photograph. It had been taken during the New Year two years earlier. Grandma Yvette had been sitting in the courtyard, shelling nuts, her face creased with a smile.That day, she'd held Houston's hand and said, "Houston, I'm entrusting my granddaughter to you. You have to treat her well."Houston had crouched in front of her, smiling. "Don't worry, Grandma. Danielle has me."I put the SIM card back into my phone and turned it on. I didn't look at Houston's messages again.Instead, I opened my best friend Elina Lynn's chat and sent her a message.[Help me look into something. Where exac
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He paused, carefully choosing his words. "The client will hold us accountable. The contractual penalties will probably be between $180,000 and $225,000. Your husband will most likely be blacklisted across the industry."$225,000 dollars.That was the project Houston had spent six solid months working on. It was also what we'd been counting on to keep up with our mortgage payments.Only one person remained ahead of me at the ticket gate. I pulled my suitcase forward a step."Danielle? Are you still there?"A station employee waved me over. "Excuse me, ma'am. Please show me your ticket."I stood there, clutching the ticket in my left hand and holding my phone in my right.The employee urged me again, "Please hurry. We're about to close the gate."I closed my eyes for a moment. Then I crouched down, unzipped my suitcase, and pulled out my laptop.Right there on the floor of the waiting hall, I connected to my phone's hotspot and logged into Houston's work account.The backup fil
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