221b Baker Street Flat Novels & Stories

The blueprints were spread out, the address printed clearly at the top. Beatrice walked over to the desk and looked down at the papers. "So," she said, tapping a manicured fingernail on the blueprint, "this is the apartment you are designing for her?" "Yes," I said, walking over. "Zyran bought it today. It’s a rush job, but I’m going to make it beautiful. I want her to feel comfortable." Beatrice read the address on the paper: 1402 Lakeview Drive, Penthouse B. She froze.

I asked once again, recalling that my question wasn’t answered the first time due to a distraction. “Well, nothing much.” Marcus muttered, scrolling through his tablet. “She’s the average person. A rankles she-wolf, even.” “Any past criminal record?” “No sir,” he stopped scrolling and raised his head but didn’t look at me in the eye. “She is clean, lives in the centre of London, 3425 Stone Street, Apt 2A, third floor, flat 5. A building we acquired and are currently buying the lease from the tenants and paying them off. We are giving them six months maximum to move out before we begin demolition and reconstruction.”

He sounded sincere. “42nd Street Blue Mockingbird Drive, North Carolina.” I tell him. He smiles. “102A Baker Street, London, UK.” I smile weakly and already felt sad exchanging address when I should be happy about it. Harry cups my cheek as he smiles handsomely at me, “Wherever I go—” “I will always bring a part of you with me.” I continued for him and we smiled at each other.

I showed her the invitation for the former Chairman's birthday as proof that we indeed knew each other. "His flat is on the 25th floor, sir. Unit 2500!" the lady answered politely. "Thanks, sweetheart. You're a big help!" I uttered and gave her a peck on the cheek much to her surprise. I left the lovely lady still touching the cheek that I kissed and strode to the lift. It wasn't hard to find 2500 for it was near the lift. I shook my head when tiny fragments abruptly emerged from my thoughts. Looked like I had been in the same flat before or probably I had the same opinion about the lift before.

Find her amongst the hay. Half an hour into our walk, I felt my phone buzz. Producing it from my pocket, an unknown number popped onto the screen. Below it, there was a text. I scrunched my brows together and placed my other hand on Bambi in the way an expecting mother would place her hand on her stomach. He didn't stir, happily being walked around. I opened the message. Felt my blood run cold as I read it. Her house is at 81 Harley Street. Need a code to enter the gate or remote. If you need help with it, just let me know. XXX Zaven.

There’s a rolled strip of paper inside, a tiny square with words on it that I can’t make out from up here. Kir reads it without lifting it to the light, then grinds the paper into the crack between two cobbles with the heel of his boot. His eyes come up to mine. "Saint," he says. I let out a slow breath. Of course it’s Saint. The man could disappear in a crowd of two and still come out with someone’s wallet. “Where?” “Eighteenth arrondissement. We walk.” The address turns out to be a flat two floors above a boulangerie that opens at five in the morning and smells, even from the stairs, like something a man might commit a felony for.

After wandering around for quite some time, I checked the address card that Erika gave me Cheval Three Quays, 40 lower Thames Street, London EC3R 6AG, but it just didn't seem to help alleviate my frustrations. Just when I was about to give up on locating the house, a building caught my attention. This particular one stood out -I mean, it was different from the others, it was a high-rise building that could be mistaken for a five-star hotel. I suddenly had an inkling feeling that it was the building.

The address in the anonymous message led Emily to a quiet brownstone in the West Village—narrow streets lined with ivy-covered brick, gas lamps flickering like they belonged to another century. The building number matched exactly: 47 Bleecker Street. A discreet brass plaque beside the door read Private Residence – No Solicitors. She paid the cab driver in cash, told him not to wait, and stood on the sidewalk staring up at the fourth-floor windows. One light was on—warm, golden, spilling through half-drawn curtains.

"I'm not leaving people who know me to go live among people who don't." That was Mrs Harlow. Loyal to a fault. Loyal to a man who'd gotten her killed. We pulled up to a modest block of flats on Kessler Road. It was three stories, and the concrete, which had been functional thirty years ago, had aged into something that held itself together by stubbornness rather than structural integrity. There was light coming from a room on the second-floor window. It was Mrs Harlow's flat. "Wait here," I said to Leo.

Maybe they’d wipe my memory and start again from scratch again? I’d arranged to see Amelia again that evening at her posh River-way flat. I had the afternoon to kill so decided to take a look at that mysterious old guy’s house properly, the one glimpsed when I’d helped him home on Sunday evening. The grand old place towered above me as the sun cast its shadow down the steep road. I lifted the large brass doorknocker then let it drop. After a minute there came the sound of a handle turning. “Yes, can I help you?” A small grey-haired woman gave me a querulous smile. “Have you made a booking, what’s the name?” She grabbed a large black book off a side table and opened it at a page marker.