The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The fog did not roll in so much as it accumulated, a thick, grey wool that pressed against the windows of Blackwood Manor with the weight of wet wool. Elias Thorne stood in the entryway, his knuckles white around the handle of a battered leather suitcase, while the bouquet of white lilies in his other hand pulsed against his palm, warm as a fevered forehead. He was forty-two, a clerk from a...

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