Chapter 31

Esther’s POV

The rest of our walk was in silence and once we got to the room, Gregory went right over to his suitcase and pulled out the silver box. I took a seat at the table and waited for him to come over. He sat the box down and entered the combination allowing the lid to pop open, he turned the case around to face me and handed me a pair of gloves. I slipped them over my hands, and I pulled the journal out gently and placed it on the table in front of me.

I flipped through the pages, I was studying each one and when I got to the back of the journal I looked very closely at the pages, I flipped them up and down studying the pages from different angles.

“Are you sure there are any impressions in the paper?” I questioned

“Well, I don’t know for sure” Gregory answered, “May I?”

“Of course,” I turned the journal to Gregory he slipped on his gloves and started flipping through the pages.

“You see these first pages don’t appear to have anything on them but once you flip about twenty