A Dangerous Legacy by Elizabeth Camden

Author:Elizabeth Camden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical Fiction;FIC042030;FIC042040;FIC027050
ISBN: 9781493412174
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2017-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Fifteen

Lucy had never seen Nick descend into such grim resolve, but ever since discovering the satchel with the horrifying photograph of their father, he was like another person. A tougher, meaner person. They stayed up late that evening, strategizing.

“I’m going to hunt down every person who had anything to do with this photograph. Hunt down, incapacitate, and destroy them. The doctors, the photographer, even the nurses who tended him. There won’t be enough to wipe off the floor for burial.”

“Easy, Nick. We’ve got enough time to plan this carefully.” They’d been patient all their lives in doggedly chipping away at this lawsuit. She wasn’t going to let Nick lose his head now.

The first step was finding out who was breaking into their apartment and why. Lucy had a good hunch, which was why she and Nick now sat beside the window, the lights in the apartment darkened in the hour before dawn. The last time she saw him, the lamppost leaner had arrived in the early morning, the glow of his cigarette tip visible even from up here.

Sure enough, at five o’clock in the morning, he strolled along the empty, predawn street, a cigarette already dangling from his mouth. He glanced up at their apartment, and Lucy instinctively slid out of view, hugging the wall and holding her breath. Had he seen them?

Nick wasn’t so timid. He stood behind the lacy drapes and squinted through the fabric. “He’s making notes in a journal. Come on. I want to see what he’s writing.”

“Are you sure? He might be dangerous.”

Nick opened the sideboard drawer and lifted out a revolver. “So am I.” Popping open the cylinder, he checked to be sure it was loaded.

As soon as Nick stowed the gun in his coat pocket, he strode to the door. There was no stopping him, so Lucy followed, hurrying down the staircase after him. “Why don’t you let me hold the gun? I’m less likely to lose my temper.” After all, she’d suspected something shady about the lamppost leaner for months, but it was all new to Nick.

He paused at the second floor landing and gave her a quizzical look. “Do you think I’m stupid, Luce? I’ll be calm and cold when necessary, but I’ll scare the living daylights out of him if the time is right.”

They left the building through the back door and headed down a block, then back up to the main street, and approached the lamppost leaner from behind. He was still making notes in a journal as they approached.

Nick grabbed him, hauling him up and two inches off the ground. The notebook splatted onto the pavement.

“Grab it, Luce,” Nick growled. She prayed they weren’t making a horrible mistake and attacking an innocent man. Nick whirled him by his shirt collar and slammed him against the lamppost.

She needn’t have worried about the lamppost leaner’s innocence. One glance at the notebook showed it to be full of references to the Manhattan Drakes’ activities. Notes listed when they came and left the apartment and descriptions of their visitors.

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