oul, fixing her eyes oor who ear. finally a doe she never discovered took her into a room to explaiy of the situatiren was in critidition following a severe cerebral haeme. he ected tain ess. he was only sixty-four years old. she ned her expressioood up, left the hospital, and did urn.
five weeks later the guardianship agened salahe first meeting with her new guardiaial impulse was to ighe summons, but palmgren had imprinted in her ess that every a has its ces. she had learo ahe d so she had e to the that the easiest way out of this preseo satisfy the guardianship agency by behaving as if she cared about what they had to say.
thus, iaking a break from her researikael blomkvist—she arrived at bjurma. eriksplan, where an elderly resenting the board had handed over salaeo advokat bjurman. the woman had kindly asked salahings were going, aisfied with the stifled silence she re reply. after about half a salahe care of advokat bjurman.
salahat she did bjurmaudied him furtively as he read through her casebook. age: over fifty. trim body. tennis on tuesdays and fridays. blond. thinning hair. a slight his . hugo boss aftershave. blue suit. red tie with a gold tiepiious ks with the ieel-rimmed glasses. grey eyes. to judge by the magaziable, his is were hunting and shooting.
during the years she had known palmgren, he had always offered her d chatted with her. not eve es foster hular truan school had ever ruffled his posure. the only time palmgren had been really upset was when she had beeh assault aer that scumbag had gramla stan. do you uand what you’ve done? you have harmed another human beih. he had souead she had patiently ignored every word of his sg.
bjurman did ime for small talk. he had immediately cluded that there aween palmgren’s obligati tulations of guardianship, ahat he had apparently allowed the salao take charge of her own household and finances. bjurman started in on a sort ation: how much do you earn? i y of your financial records. who do you speh? do you pay your rent on time? do you drink? did palmgrehs you have on your face? are you careful about hygiene?
fuck you.
palmgren had bee her trustee right after all the evil had happened. he had iings with her at least oh, sometimes more often. after she moved badagatan, they raeighbours. he lived atan, a couple of blocks away, and they would ruher and go for coffee at giffy’s or some other earby. palmgreo impose, but a few times he had visited her, brile gift for her birthday. she had a standing invitation to visit him whenever she liked, a privilege that she seldom took adva wheo s?der, she had started spending christmas eve with him after she weher. they would eat christmas ham and play chess. she had erest ier she learhe rules, she a match. he er, and salander had seeo take pity on him on those lonely holidays.
she sidered herself i, and she alaid her debts.
it almgren who had sublet her mother’s apartment on lundagatail salander needed her owo live. the apartment was about 500 square feet, shabby aed, but at least it was a roof over her head.
none, ao established society had been severed. nils bjurman was a wholly different sort of person. no way she would be spending christmas eve at his house. his first move had been to put in plaew rules on the ma of her at at handelsbanken. palmgren had never had a beions of his guardianship so as to allow her to take care of her own finances. she paid her bills and could use her savi.
prior to the meeting with bjurman the week before christmas she had prepared herself; ohere, she had tried to explain that his predecessor had trusted her and had never been given o to do otherwise. palmgreake care of her own affairs and not interfered in her life.
“that’s ohe proble
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