Chapter 105

Declan

Vera falls asleep on me before midnight.

Not on purpose.

One minute she is curled up against my side on the library sofa pretending to read and asking me questions about corporate fraud.

The next her voice just trails off in the middle of a sentence.

I look down at her and watch her asleep.

My wife has one hand still on my chest and her glasses have slipped down her nose a bit.

The sight of