Part 31
"I get it!" Tommy yelled. "The bottle has a setting sun, just like the letter. Before the tides change...that's the picture...and the music has set...that's the stereo!" he pointed.
"Then I wonder...," Mark said reaching for the empty wine bottle. As he lifted it a small piece of paper slipped off the shelf, and landed on the floor.
Lola inhaled sharply, then stooped down to pick it up.
Part 32
The paper was thin between her fingers, and had already started to yellow. She wondered how long it had been sitting there.
She tuned it over in her hand to see clean letters and numbers written on the back side.
“What? What is it?” Mark asked.
“I don’t know…” Lola sighed. Frustration filled her. She handed the note to his out stretched hand, unaware that his fingers brushed hers.
Tommy walked beside Mark to look at it as well.
“BE/AC 1120,” Mark read to himself.
Lola began to pace the room, staring at the floor. The only part that made some sense to her were the numbers.
“Well,” she began. “I don’t know if it matters, but we got married on September 20th…1-1-2-0.”
She walked back to the shelves where the wine bottle had sat, and raised onto her tiptoes.
“Lola, I don’t think anything is still…” Mark started.
“What is this?” she asked reaching to grab book.
“I’m sure it’s nothing,” he said taking a step closer to her.
Lola brought the book down and studied the binding. In between the groves of the spine set a small lens, no bigger than her pinky nail. She flipped the book around and pried it open to discover a small camera.
She turned to Mark, a fierce glare in her eyes.
“Explain,” she growled.
Mark took a deep breath, and sat down on the couch, and ran his fingers through his hair.
“I didn’t want to use them…I”
“Them”
“Yes, them, Lola listen,” he said more sternly. “I didn’t want to use them…not at first. The letter wasn’t the only thing Kyle left me. He also left a code that I later figured out was the password to your security cameras he had installed one year ago. I wasn’t going to use them, but I didn’t know how to keep you safe without it. What if something happen to you” he looked at her, his eyes piercing hers. “I wouldn’t have been able to live with that.”
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