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The Lady
BOOK 2: THE HEART OF THE HAUNTER
We’ll keep on coming till we get it right
This place, we’ve seen it a million times
I won’t forget you
Can’t remember me without you
But I can’t call you mine.
—Daughtry, Call You Mine
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The bad weather delayed the inspection until the first week of February. The representative of the Blotter estate arrived in a lavish Mercedes Benz that came splashing in the slush down Greenwich Road on a bright winter morning. I went out to wait on the porch, and the driver stepped out to open the backseat door. Oh, well, Mercedes and a driver? Rich much? The man helped out a woman in her early sixties, wearing a sober black dress under a long black coat with fur collar and cuffs. Tell me about old fashion fancy.
She looked over at the closed guesthouse on her way to the porch, then turned to look up at me and smiled, starting u
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