Dorcas tore Quincy’s stuffed dinosaur from his arms, threw it into the fireplace, and shoved him back when he tried to save it
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Chapter 23 - DORCAS DIES
Dorcas died at eighty-one after a stroke.
No mystery.
No hidden murder.
No final scheme.
Everett attended the funeral.
Quincy did too.
I did not.
Different choices.
No moral ranking.
Dorcas left Quincy:
A small investment account.
Pearl cuff links that had belonged to Harrison.
And a letter.
Quincy accepted the account after legal review.
Money is not contaminated by emotion once ownership is lawful.
He kept the cuff links.
Read the letter.
It said:
I tried to make you afraid because I was afraid of becoming unnecessary.
Then:
I told myself I was protecting family when I was really protecting my position inside it.
Quincy read it twice.
Then folded it.
“Keeping?”
“For now.”
A year later he shredded it.
May you like
Kept the cuff links.
Objects get different futures.
