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REBECCA DROPPED the last armload of her clothes on Dess from one bedrooirl was tiring herself out So Rebecca had completed the last few trips on her own
She looked around the bedrooht, it would be their roolanced at her watch Only eleven o'clock Hours yet until they left for Las Vegas
Hours With no reason to hurry, she could take her ti forward to what she ht learn about her husband-to-be
Picking up an armload of socks, she walked over to the dresser The ebony and inlaid greenOn the left side, a shallow stone bowl held a set of car keys, and a natural-bristle brush and double-toothed comb sat neatly beside it
She dropped the socks on the eht side of the dresser top, and turned her attention to the drawers Three draide, and three high, the black dresser bowed out in a graceful curve The top three draere shorter than the others, and the center draere narroith the stylized curves of green ly The top left drawer contained socks, and the center drawer held handkerchiefs
Momentarily distracted from her quest for an empty drawer, she lifted up the socks and handkerchiefs to search beneath the Desmond was too clever, or too security conscious, to choose theplace for personal valuables
She opened the top right drawer and found it empty, so she swept her socks into it The few pairs she'd packed for her trip seemed lost in the vastness of the drawer, and she couldn't wait until the rest of her things arrived froed here
The other two drawers on the left contained Desmond's turtlenecks, underwear, and a few plain white T-shirts The four re Rebecca with an uneasy pres, or was he honoring his wife'sthe room the way it had been when they'd shared it? Rebecca kne little ti They'd been his wife's, and he'd never filled them
She hurried to the closet The black sliding doors, set in both top and bottolided smoothly at her touch A thin strip of insulation kept the doors fro their moveht bulb, illu a deep closet with a double row of clothes The back row held darker, heavier suits and shirts, while the front held spring and su anything on the other side of the closet
Rebecca shoved open the other closet door, and hung as many of her clothes as she could on the e shirts and pants she'd nor to occupy that ominous space
Trying to fill more space, she spread so the rack Then she stopped, and really looked at theed, lapels becale- to double-breasted and back The suit
s hanging in this closet couldn't be more than five years old
She flipped through the shirts, finding mostly washable silk and rayon blends no reen chamois shirt that looked orn But she didn't know if it had come that way, like acid-washed jeans, or if it had actually been in service for more than five years
She thought back on her discussion with Dr Chen He'd been one of the Institute's first researchers And he'd been working there for five years
Desmond had purchased an entire neardrobe when he took this job as Director of the Institute Why? What had he been before that? Rebecca didn't know, but she was certain it had so years, and why she'd been unable to find references to hiround searches