The Golden Suspect
The ink in the well was black and cold, and you were counting the pages of the ledger with your thumb, pressing the rough paper against the wood of the desk until the grain bit into your skin. The basement of St. Jude’s Asylum smelled of damp wool and old plaster, a scent that had seeped into the lining of your coat over three years of silent labor. You were Elias Thorne, forty-two, and you...
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