sent neither of them a response. I searched my contacts instead, selecting a number untouched for six years.
Someone I knew well picked up.
“Harold Bennett? Is everything all right?”
“Not quite, Richard.”
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Richard Mercer had served as my company’s attorney for twenty-seven years.
My gaze returned to Eleanor’s stone.
“I need you to arrange a ride. Then prepare every document we discussed.”
He paused before replying.
“Are you certain?”
“Completely.”
Three hours and twenty minutes later, a chauffeured car carried
