He Left Me at Forty-Eight, Then Wanted Me Back novel · Chapter 11 of 16
Chapter 11: Noodles
"I didn't spend it," I said.
"I know that now."
"Look at the date. Look at who it went to."
"I looked." He pressed his palms into his eyes. "I'm so stupid."
"You're seventeen, and your father lied to you."
"He said you had a shopping problem. He said that's why he had to take over the money."
I thought about the coupon binder in my kitchen drawer.
Twenty-five years of it.
"Caleb. I have worn the same winter coat since you were in sixth grade."
He laughed, wet and awful.
Then he cried some more.
I drove him home at eleven.
I stopped two houses down so Glenn wouldn't see my car.
Brandi's white Jeep was in my driveway.
Caleb didn't want to get out.
"Can I stay with you?"
"Not tonight. Not until Bev says it won't hurt your case or mine."
"What case?"
"Go on, baby. Text me when you're inside."
He did.
The next morning I gave Bev the statement.
She held it by the edges.
"Oh, he's done now," she said. "He just doesn't know it yet."
The next two weeks, I worked like my rent depended on it.
It did.
We redid the whole Harbor Grand scheme.
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