Chapter 78

I should have known it would be okay. Sam was there, guarding the entryway. I rested my hand between the cocked ears.

“Do you know what the code represents?” Knowing Portia, I was certain they weren’t just a set of random numbers.

“It’s my father’s birthdate. Do you think we need to change it?” He opened the closet and keyed in the code.

“First, what are the odds anyone knows it? Second, why would they think we’d use it for our code?”

“That’s true. I do think we should change it periodically, though.”

“Yeah, that’s only smart.” We left the suitcases by the staircase to the second floor and strolled through the house. “Is this another closet?” I opened a door further down. “Oh. I guess not.” It turned out to be an elevator that went up to the third floor. “Huh.”

“Mother always regretted the house in Great Falls didn’t have one.”

“I can understand that, especially after Novotny had to make sure she had a stair lift.”

“You had to use it as well.”