Legacy by Roberts Nora

Author:Roberts, Nora
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2021-05-25T00:00:00+00:00

She opened it, read the poem.

Your popi’s dead, too bad for you.

You cried lots of tears, but don’t be blue.

You’ll see him again, and it’ll be swell,

When I send you down to join him in hell.

“That’s the fucking limit.” Enraged, she started to tear the card to pieces. She stopped, shut her eyes, pulled out some control. “You’re not going to use him, not going to use him this way.”

She pushed up to pace because she could feel herself shaking. Too angry to think, and she had to think.

She yanked open the fridge, pulled out a Coke. She’d taken the first glug when Lina walked in.

“Really? We’re going to attempt some delayed bonding, and you … What’s going on?”

Adrian just pointed at the card.

Lina read it, sat. “If you’re not drinking this smoothie, I will.”

“Help yourself.”

“I want to tell you it’s more bullshit, but I don’t feel that way either. Anyone who’s followed your blog, read any of your interviews knows how close you and Popi were, so this is calculated cruelty.”

“I know it. I know it’s designed to make me feel exactly what I feel now.”

“No, Adrian, it was designed to make you sad, to enhance your grief and frighten you. What it’s done is piss you off. He doesn’t—or she doesn’t—know you.”

She stopped, looked back at Lina. “That’s what Raylan said.”

“You’ve told Raylan Wells?”

“It was one of those things. He saw me take one out of the PO Box when he was in there, and he saw my reaction. So I told him.”

“Good. The more people who know who care about you, the better. Now, what do you want to do?”

It threw Adrian off for a moment that her mother, who kept personal business locked-down private, approved of opening her tight circle.

“I don’t know.”

“I’d like to hire an investigator. The police, even the FBI aren’t as invested as someone would be who’s being paid to invest in this specific thing. They don’t have the time.”

“I don’t know what a private investigator could do.”

“We’ll find out. Maybe nothing, but we’ll find out. Let me do this for you. Let me find the right person, have them start looking into it. I should have done it years ago, but I felt—always have—this sort of thing is just a nasty side effect of being in the public eye.”

“So does everyone else.”

“Well, I think I, and everyone else, have been wrong. Let’s try it.”

“Okay.” Adrian nodded. “Okay. It’s more than just doing nothing and waiting for the next one to come.”

Or, she thought, waiting for the poet to come. How much longer would writing a few lines suffice?

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