He took the brochure out on a Saturday.He'd been looking at the rack for six weeks without looking at the brochure—the specific avoidance of a man who knew something was there and had decided that the knowing was sufficient and the looking was optional. The rack was in the study, the one that wasn't really a study because he never studied anything there, the room that had become a repository for things that didn't have a home elsewhere. The magazine rack had been Renata's idea—you need somewhere to put things, Alexander, you can't just leave them on every surface—and he had agreed because Renata was usually right about things like magazine racks.The brochure had been there since October, placed by him, found by Elijah, never mentioned by either of them, and then left when Elijah packed his bags because it was, as Elijah had apparently understood, always the penthouse's.He sat on the island with it.The study was too far. The study was where he went for work, for the laptop and the
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