Free Happily Ever Addendum by Sadie Grubor, Monica Black Page A

you for tonight."
    "You don’t have to thank me."
She kissed me quickly before moving to stand. I helped her.
    "Lilli?"
    "Hmm?"
    "I have something I need to discuss
with you." My voice was shakier than I'd intended.
    "About?"
    "Come to my office with me, please?"
    I took her hand in mine, waiting for her
reply. She nodded. Keeping hold of her hand, we walked to my office. My briefcase
and the large, mahogany box were sitting on my desk.
    "What’s that?" She pointed to
the box.
    "Devlin came in this afternoon to
go over some paperwork in regards to the inheritance. The box is part of some
of the things my grandfather left for me."
    "What’s the matter?" Her eyes
shone with nervousness.
    "Nothing's the matter. I got some
information today and it…well, it concerns you." To ease the worried look
on her face, I grabbed the legal documents and handed them to her. "Read these
over."
    She sat down and began reading. After
ten minutes, which felt like hours, she looked up from the papers, her eyes wide.
    "Aidan, I can’t…I mean…these need
to be changed." She thrust the papers onto my desk.
    "There is nothing I can do right
now." I shrugged. "It’s not that big of a deal. I do need you to sign
the papers though." Turning to the page requiring her signature, I pointed
to the open document. "Sign here and here."
    Shaking her head, she refused.
"No."
    With a sigh, I ran my hand through my
hair. "Lilli, you have to or the document is invalid. You have to sign
acceptance or—"
     Fine." She slid the papers in
front of her and held her hand out for a pen. Once I placed the pen in her
hand, she signed, slapped the pen back onto the desk and stood before me.
"Now, get new papers drawn up and take it all back." She said firmly and
started for the door.
    "Wait!" Placing my hand on her
shoulder, I moved to block her exit. "There are other things...I want you
to see them with me."
    "You haven’t seen them yet?" Her
brow wrinkled.
    "No. I just found out about them
today. There is a safe hidden in the bar." Taking a step away from her, I stretched
my hand toward her, requesting that she to do this with me. "I know that
it is late. But please, come with me?"
    Lilli tangled her fingers with mine and
we walked to the bar. Once behind the bar, I unlocked the cabinet and found the
hidden black button. I pressed the button and heard a clicking sound coming from
behind us. Turning around, I noticed the large painting next to the pool table
slide into the ceiling.
    "That was so James Bond."
Lilli exclaimed with a laugh. I grinned.
    The safe had an alphanumeric pad. As
instructed, I typed in Isobel and hit the large red button. With a click, the
door popped open. I peered inside, noticing a few black, fire-safe boxes. Pulling
them out, I sat them on the pool table. There were five boxes varying in size.
    We started with the largest. It contained
a stack of letters, deeds, legal documents and an old photo album.
    "Oh, wow." Lilli ran her
fingers over the aged cover. "They don’t make them like this unless you go
to a specialty shop."
    She was right. It was brown canvas with
leather binding. You could smell the age of it. I opened the album, revealing a
picture of my great grandmother, Murron, my grandmother, Isobel, and my mother,
Eliza, on the inside cover. Three separate pictures with their names, along
with the day they wed each Aidan Iverson, written next to each picture, from my
great grandfather to father.
    Turning pages, we found baby pictures of
my Grandfather leading up to my own baby pictures.
    "Is that you?" Lilli slid on
top of the pool table and leaned over my arm.
    "Yeah, it is." Smiling, I
turned the album over to her. "You should continue it."
    She looked up at me with wide eyes and
put her head back down to go through the pictures. For a moment, I couldn’t take
my eyes off of her. She's just so beautiful.
    Finally able to pull eyes off my wife, I
moved on to the next box. This one was thicker than the others. When I opened
it,