Tell Me True (The Call Me Cat Trilogy, Book 3) by Lux Alex

Author:Lux, Alex [Lux, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daring Books
Published: 2014-05-30T05:00:00+00:00

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The next day I dragged Bridgette out of bed and forced her to attend an art auction in Boston with me. "I need your help picking a wedding gift for Ash. Something really special," I told her.

"Didn't you already get him a watch?"

I rolled my eyes as I pulled into a parking spot. We were almost late because Bridgette hadn't been easy to coerce out of the house. Finally, best friend guilt had worked. "The watch is nice, but with so much tragedy in our lives, I wanted something extra special. I have all this money now that I don't know what to do with. When I refused to use Ash's bank account or spend his money, he created an account just for me and put so much in there I'm a little lost. The least I can do is get him something with it."

We walked into the modern building while other people in expensive suits and dresses checked in and took their numbered paddles to the main auction room. Bridgette looked through the program they handed her as I gave my name and picked up my number. "They have some amazing pieces being auctioned today," she said. "I didn't know some of these items were even available for private purchase."

"One of Ash's favorite works of art is being auctioned today. I have to get it for him."

We sat near the back and half-listened as the auctioneer went through his rapid introduction and began with the first piece, a little-known early Monet painting.

I knew the art I wanted wouldn't be up until the end, so I tuned out the nearly unintelligible words and turned to Bridgette. "We've set the wedding date for this weekend," I said.

Her eyes widened. "But that's so soon. What about Jon? What about his killer?"

"They haven't found the killer and we don't have all the answers, but life has to go on. We're still searching, trying to figure out what happened. Ash has his P.I. hunting for clues. We haven't given up, but we can't put our happiness on hold forever while we wait. We're going to have a small ceremony in a garden and then the reception will be later that day on the Davenport yacht."

A tear glistened in her eye but she wiped it away. "He was really amazing you know. Jon, he… there was a lot about him people didn't know, but he was kind of extraordinary."

I half-listened to the auctioneer introduce the next piece, a Van Gogh. Both Van Gogh and Monet weren't fully appreciated in their time. It wasn't until they died that their art was worth anything. I wondered how much we could really value anyone or anything until we'd lost it. Was Jon really that great and we just didn't see it? Or did he only seem that amazing because he was gone, and the bad parts faded under the weight of the grief over his loss?

My breath caught at the beauty of the next painting, one of El Greco’s later works, but I held my hand, waiting for the painting I knew Ash would love the most.

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