Forty Thousand Dollars in Marked Bills Found in a Safe Deposit Box

some rapid, clipped words to fill the space between us.

But no words came.

He simply nodded once, a quick, jerky motion of his chin, and turned toward the glass doors.

I watched him walk slowly out of the bank lobby, his shoulders still hunched against the damp cold as he stepped into the autumn drizzle.

The rain did not let up by the continue reading …