The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The air in the nave of St. Jude’s tasted of copper and wet rot. Elias Thorne stood before the altar, his knuckles white against the cold stone, while the congregation watched him with the polite, predatory stillness of vultures. He was forty years old, though his lungs felt sixty, and he had come here for one reason: the fee. Twelve hundred pounds. Enough to clear his brother Arthur’s gambling...

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