The Wistful Incense
The auction house smelled of dust, floor wax, and the metallic tang of old money. Elias Thorne stood in the center of the grand foyer, his shoulders hunched under a weight that had nothing to do with his heavy wool coat. He was forty-two, a senior actuary whose life was a ledger of precise calculations, and he had come here to close the final account of his sister Clara’s estate. She had died...
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