The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton

Author:Paige Shelton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

NINETEEN

“Even if she’s here, I’m not sure we’ll be able to see her,” I said as I kept my arm threaded through Rosie’s. It was too crowded to let her go.

The museum, including the courtyard we were currently walking through, was much busier than during my first visit. A lot of people were interested in past lives.

“Maybe not,” Rosie said as she looked around at all the people. She didn’t like crowds, but I didn’t realize until this moment that they actually made her uncomfortable and anxious.

“Are you okay?” I veered us out of the flow of people and stopped walking. “We don’t have to do this.”

I’d wished I hadn’t asked her to go with me from the moment she’d opened her door. Her expression had been drawn and distracted. If she had lived past lives, I sensed she’d said goodbye to them a long time ago. She wasn’t interested in getting reacquainted with any of her old, possible selves. And, the crowd made it even less worth it.

Rosie took a deep breath and let it out. “No, lass, I’m fine. I’m sorry if I seem like I’m not. I’m fine. I’m not a fan of so many people, but I can get past that. I can’t find that paperwork and that’s on my mind. I ken I will find it though.”

I frowned. “Why don’t we go back home. I’ll help you search.”

“No, lass, I need tae get out a bit, and I need tae search for it by myself, later. I would worry someone else would miss it and I’d end up searching everything anyway. I’m truly fine.”

Her eyes weren’t saying the same thing.

“All right,” I said. “We’ll just swoop through. If I don’t see Mary right off, we’ll get out of here.”

The museum was much different at night, as most places in Edinburgh were. Night brought out the ghosts, if you believed in that sort of thing. Again, I didn’t not believe.

Laila was nowhere to be seen. And this crowd had no interest in any of the artifacts inside. They might have interest in the writers being honored by the museum, but only if they thought they might have once been one of them.

We merged back into the crowd and were herded inside, through the main lobby and then back to a room I hadn’t noticed before. Set up as a meeting room, the building itself wasn’t very big so the meeting space felt cramped. Chairs were set up in tight rows, but by the time we made it in, most of them were taken. I ushered Rosie to an empty seat on the end of a row and stood next to her.

“I can see better if I stand,” I told her.

“Aye.”

Only a few seconds later, the doors were shut. I scanned, but didn’t see Mary anywhere. It didn’t make sense that she had come to this event so soon after Henry’s murder. I should have thought it through better, but I hadn’t predicted it would be such a big event.

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