The Secret of the Villa Mimosa by Elizabeth Adler

Author:Elizabeth Adler [Adler, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780307575111
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1995-10-27T20:00:00+00:00

Millie’s attorney, John Hartley, arrived from New York two days later. He was an older man, white-haired and stiffly pompous, and he had been Millie’s legal adviser for decades.

“Mrs. Renwick had suffered from a heart complaint for several years,” he told Bea. “Everything that could be done for her had already been done. She knew she might die at any time. That’s why she refused to give up the cigarettes she enjoyed, even though she knew they were bad for her.”

Bea suddenly recalled her first meeting with Millie, at the Fifth Avenue apartment that rainy day. “… it’s not alcohol that will kill me,” she had said, “it’s these blasted ciggies.”

“She wrote this letter for you. It arrived just before she died,” Hartley said. He handed her an envelope and sat back with hands patiently folded, while Bea read it.

I know I might not have long to live, and that’s why I lived my life to the hilt, dear girl. I thought I was a lucky woman; I had everything I wanted. And then, like a blessing from God, you came into my life, and I cannot tell you how you brightened it. You were the granddaughter I never had, the perfect companion, someone young to laugh with me and be my friend. Someone I could indulge and pamper a little. Someone who listened to my endless silly chatter and laughed along with me at my own foolishness. You made my days complete, and I would have been a lonelier woman without you.

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