After Rebirth The Scums All Cry For Forgiveness novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: Harbor Road

I read the name on the registration slip three times.

It did not change.

Behind me, a floorboard creaked in the hall.

Rowan stood in the study doorway in a dark robe, one hand on the frame and a cup of coffee in the other.

He was standing on his own legs.

He looked at the folder in my hands.

He did not look surprised.

"Good morning," he said.

"Whose car is this?"

"You can read."

"Say it."

"It belongs to your brother." He set the cup down on the shelf beside him. "Leland drove it into my car on Harbor Road two years ago."

I had known it for a full minute, and it still hit me in the stomach.

"He got out," Rowan said. "He walked to my window and looked at me. I was pinned, and I could see his face through the glass."

"And?"

"He got back in the car and drove away."

I held the report so tightly that the paper bent.

"That same night your father reported the car stolen," Rowan said. "A lawyer buried the rest. The only man who could say it was Leland was a man the doctors said would never stand."

"Two years," I said.

"Two years of watching him across the road, with nothing I could take to a court."

"And you married his sister."

"Yes."

"You knew when you saw me on the lawn."

"I knew when I saw Tobias on the lawn." His eyes did not leave mine. "I knew who you were in the hospital corridor. I knew when I asked."

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