Case Closed Books Novels & Stories

I looked up again, paranoid that some person would walk in even though I had locked the door and no person would be able to enter. I looked back down and hurriedly took out the books before I began to page through them. I have never been so glad to be able to read as I am at this moment, or else it would have been futile for me to even be prying. I opened the first leather bound book and found it to be a book on receipts of payments. I paged through it to make sure, and was met with the same thing with each turn of the page. I closed the book and moved on to the next. I was met with more receipt books recording payments made for me.

The clasp gave way too easily. But my fingers lingered—just a moment longer. His pulse—strong beneath my fingertips. I stilled. My mark should have been there. A sad smile slipped through— gone just as quickly. “Which one?” I stepped back as I asked. For a moment— he didn’t answer. His gaze followed my hands. Then lifted to my face. “The black one.” I turned to the cabinet and opened it. Five large books, numbered one to five. I pulled the first one and sat on the sofa.

He looked at the entry. He thought about Don in the study — the closed door that had been the signal of the working mind for thirty years. In the first years, the closed door had been the signal of Don writing essays, the shorter forms that preceded the books. In the fifth year, the closed door had been the signal of The Inside Account. In the twelfth year, The Ground Keeps. In the twenty-second year, The Emergent World. Now, in the thirty-first year, the fourth book. The closed door had been the same door for thirty years. The person behind it had been the same person. The work had been the same work — the sustained argument that had been unfolding for thirty years, the argument that had ap

Zachary was still asleep beside me; his profile was so finely sculpted that it was difficult to look away. Nevertheless, I forced myself to rise, wash, and dress. Just as I was about to leave the room, my eyes happened to catch the small box left unopened the day before. A faint, uneasy curiosity rose within me. I wondered what sort of riding crop Zachary had specially commissioned. To my astonishment, when I carefully opened the little box, I found an exquisitely crafted jeweled hairpin lying within, its gemstones sparkling brilliantly. My heart lurched. I had misunderstood Zachary all along. The box never contained the ill-intentioned riding crop I had imagined.

"Six months before he disappeared." Elena frowned. "He already knew." Theodore looked at her thoughtfully. "He feared something." "He never told me what." "But during his final week here..." "He removed one book from this study every night." "And?" "He never returned them." --- Elena's eyes slowly wandered across the towering bookshelves surrounding the room. Thousands of books. History. Economics. Medicine. Law. Chess. Every shelf perfectly organized. Except one. A narrow section near the fireplace contained seven books that were slightly misaligned.

"Just tell me." Ivy is used to Cela's lack of emotion. As her editor, she's mastered handling her so well. "Your second book is selling faster than the first one. Only three branches of the bookstore have not confirmed the final sales yet as of 5PM today but the other seven already did!" she told the first good news. "Really?" Cela asked in a casual tone but a smile shortly appeared on her face after realizing she's having a back-to-back success.

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