The Only Child by Andrew Pyper

Author:Andrew Pyper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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The taxi drops her off in front of her hotel but she doesn’t go inside. Instead she carries on another block to Eric Green’s building. Lily knows that if she needs to convince anyone else of the impossible history that she’s contemplating about Michael—convince them that she’s not the crazy one for believing there may be some strand of truth sewn into his fabrications—she’ll need as much evidence as she can, and Green’s wartime photo is all there is.

This time, both the outer and inner security doors are open. As is the door to Green’s apartment. Lily nudges it wider with her elbow, careful not to touch any surface with her hands, and steps into the maze of stacked books and documents.

She finds him on the floor. Lying on his back, eyes closed behind his smudged lenses, arms outstretched, as if carried and placed there while asleep. The two puncture marks in his neck and the blood haloed around his head the only indications that he’ll never wake up.

He lies in front of the filing cabinet he took the photo albums out of.

It’s foolish to stay any longer. But she has to be certain.

Lily steps around Green’s body, careful not to let any part of her foot touch the still spreading perimeter of blood. The drawers have been left open. She looks inside. The album containing the Bachmeier photos is gone.

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