Campaigning for Love novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Maeve
Nelson's rented house stood at the end of a gravel lane outside Johnston.
It had a porch light, a crooked mailbox, and a refrigerator with nothing in it but mustard and seltzer.
I told him on the porch steps, and he listened with his eyes shut and his jaw working.
He looked at the three pictures for a long time.
"I knew," he said.
"You knew?"
"Not this. I knew she was keeping something from me."
"Why didn't you ask?"
"Because I need her until the debate. And because I didn't want it to be true."
He sat down on the step.
"Cora, what did she say at the end?"
"She said you picked your seat over your wife."
"Ask him what she asked for at the end."
His face did not change, but his hands did.
He folded them together between his knees and held on.
"Come inside," he said.
He lit a small lamp in a living room with no pictures on the walls.
The only photograph was on the mantel, a woman with short dark hair squinting into the sun on a dock.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Campaigning for Love are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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