Miss Chamomile struts away – a stately and graceful gait although limping too, from the harsh treatment.
She gets herself cleaned, dressed and remade in a very deliberate, disciplined and meditative way. She is very centered now, she has created a vehicle which will solve all problems and restore her to the path of security and surety which is her right.
He is not to far from where she left him, enjoying a cold drink as if for the first time. She secures the belt of her night gown and tells him to follow her. He eagerly complies. She leads him to his fathers old place, a home office, the den of a dead man. She tells him, that if he wants her again he must take over the family owned pharmaceutical company and save it from collapse, as the family fortune is tied to it. He must also uncover enough about the assassins and their goals to ensure that they never return, but so much as to provoke another attack.
If he accomplishes these goals, she will guarantee him a paradise on earth beyond even the dreams and imaginings of men, for she knows what it means to be a good wife so long as he knows what it means to fulfill the duties of the man of the house.
Bucky agrees, of course. She gives him a final, warning look and leaves him to it. He is confident but... he knew nothing about his father's business or death. He would have to find sufficient clues right here in the desk in front of him to solve all problems and quickly.
Read the police report regarding his fathers death which is in a folder on top of the desk?
Read a risk assessment from his pharmaceutical companies R&D department?
Take one of the pills from a strange bottle marked 'clarity' ?
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