First Line Friday: August 28th, 2020

Dylan Hughes hosts the First Line Friday challenge on alternate weeks to Jim Adams Music Prompts.

Your line and photoprompt for this week are:

Untouched books crowded his shelves, shiny leather spines and faded first editions, meticulously dusted and never read.

Untouched books crowded his shelves, shiny leather spines and faded first editions, meticulously dusted and never read.

The family rubbed their greedy hands in glee, dollar signs replacing their breathing as they mentally spent the inherited potential millions.
They had never been close to their father until the last eleven months of his life, purely for being seen as the grieving relatives and to reap the benefits of his fortune.
Now they were all gathered in the study awaiting the reading of the Will, piggy eyes calculating and evaluating.

Mr Shepherd asked them all to take a seat, then turned to the bookcase behind him which housed the priceless collections. He pressed a button and the panel slid silently back to reveal a mirror to which was pasted a photograph of their late father.
The caption beneath it read

You should see your faces, you worthless pieces of shit!

With a perfectly composed face, Mr Shepherd went through the formalities, and dispensed the deceased’s legacy, a personally signed copy of his memoirs for each of them.