“Stop it, Arden. This wasn’t funny. It was terrible.”
“What was?”
“What she did last night . . . and in the cold rain! It’s quite a story.”
“Yeah, well, I have quite a story to tell, too. I’m going to work. The stock market doesn’t pay attention to personal sorrow. I’ll call our attorney, and we’ll talk later.”
“That’s disrespectful, Arden. No one expects you to be in the office so soon, and you certainly should not call Mr. Johnson today.”
“Yeah, well, death is disrespectful,” he replied, and closed the door between us.
I heard him pound down the stairs, mumbling to himself.
I hoped that strangers would see his rage as a result of his sorrow and not his ambition, not that it would matter to the people on whom our business relied, apparently. Our wealthy clients probably believed they could buy off death itself.
The business had changed Arden, I thought. It was almost impossible now to recall the young man who was so devoted to his mother, an Olympic ice skater who had suffered from diabetes and lost her legs. So much had happened since, and so much had changed him. Papa must have realized it, and that must have been why he put that codicil in his will.
But how could I defy my husband and bring him to his senses, even if only to obey my father, who was dead and gone?
How could Papa expect me to step into his shoes and be as strong as he was?
What had he seen in me that I had yet to see in myself?
What had he seen looming on the horizon?
What could possibly be worse than the horrors fate already had chosen to rain down on Whitefern?
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