He Hid His Secret Wife So I Stole His Sister's Boyfriend novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Back Through the Front Door
Tuesday afternoon Dot drove me to the Winfield gate in her green station wagon.
Jerome couldn't come past the stone pillars.
He stood on the sidewalk with his hands in his gray coat and watched me go up the drive.
"Five-forty tomorrow," he said through the car window. "The footpath. I'll be there."
"I know where you'll be," I said.
I went up the drive with one suitcase and my own terms.
Margo was waiting on the front steps in a cream sweater, with a smile ready.
"Willa. You came home."
"I came for the room, the doctor and the Friday money."
"Of course."
She tilted her head at the wagon behind me.
"And Jerome? Is he parked at the curb like a dog?"
"He's on the sidewalk like a man who isn't allowed in your house."
Her smile didn't move, but her eyes went flat.
"He'll be back," she said softly. "By Friday, I told you. I'm patient."
"It's been a lot of Fridays."
A housekeeper took my suitcase.
Margo walked beside me through the hall with her hand on my elbow, so that anyone watching would think we were friends.
"Let me tell you how this goes," she said quietly.
"You sign a statement that the baby is a Winfield and that you've never been in the guest house. Nobody sets foot near it. And I put your account back."
"You had my work deleted."
"I had it suspended, darling. It's a different word."
"My answer is no."
"Then you're a woman with a bathtub that doesn't drain and a pregnancy to pay for."
"I'm a woman with twelve thousand dollars a month," I said. "Paid every Friday, in your father's handwriting."
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