Chapter 51. What She Meant To Say

Iris liked the notes.

Diana read the email standing beside the hotel window, still wearing the dusty shoes she had meant to remove ten minutes earlier.

The editor wanted more about the family. Sofia had mentioned an aunt who had worked with them for decades before retiring. She would be back in the city on Monday and was willing to talk. Iris could cover four extra nights if Diana could rearrange her return.

There was no promise of another commission. Just the chance to make this one better.

It was exactly the sort of detail she had traveled to find: someone who remembered the work differently from the official story.

Diana sat down and read it again.

She checked her remaining leave, drafted a request to Helena, and stopped before sending it. She would need to explain the revised handover to Eva. She would need to change the flight.

Mostly, she wanted to tell Gabriel.

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He answered on the third ring.

“There you are.”