Call My Bluff by Elizabeth Knox

Author:Elizabeth Knox
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Knox Publishing
Published: 2020-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

Epilogue

SAWYER

The large furniture truck pulled slowly away, the driver waving a friendly greeting as Grace and I pulled into the driveway of the picture-perfect two-story house on a tree-lined street in Portland. It was almost too pretty to be real, and Grace was grinning from ear to ear as we climbed the steps to the front porch.

“Okay, so all this is for how long? Will it be a project?” Grace was trying to hold back her excitement.

I realized how much the largescale projects I had done as she was growing up cost her. She hadn’t had any place to really settle, to grow roots. I still wondered if that was part of the reason she had worn the t-shirts of bands she didn’t like, just to fit in. Create a quick identity, that helped her fit in easily wherever we landed.

“Well, I think Portland is pretty cool. You need to stay put and study now and do well in high school so you can go on to do great things.”

Taking a deep breath, I continued, “How about if we stay here until you graduate? It’s ours now for as long as we want. I gotta warn you though, sometimes it snows here in the winter, and this street is crazy about Christmas.” No matter what, I wanted to give whatever was left of her childhood a bit of magic.

The movers and cleaners looked like they were just finishing placing the books on the shelves and fluffing the couch cushions in the living room, as we walked upstairs to see the bedrooms. All the furniture we had purchased so far looked great, and I was looking forward to choosing a couple more things with care, now that we were in the house.

“Can we go get something to eat?” Grace seemed to have hollow legs, and since the movers now seemed to be taking up all the space unpacking and putting away things in the kitchen, I said yes. There would be lots of time now that we were here to make our new place a home.

“Feel like a burger?” I asked once we backed out and were driving into the center of town.

“When will we see Honor?” Grace’s quick question came straight out of left field.

The truth was I didn’t know. “How about we stop by and ask her to join us for lunch?”

Grace’s quick reply of, “Yes,” was all I needed to know that my life was finally beginning to go in the direction it was supposed to.

Pulling open the heavy door to the discreet entrance of the agency was not what I expected. It looked like any other massive apartment block on the edge of Laurelhurst. The room we walked into was a small waiting room, and the only door at the far end was locked.

“How can I help you?” a polite but firm voice was loud in the small empty room, seeming to come down from the ceiling.

“Grace Ford here for Ms. Powell.” I had always found that

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