He Paid a Million for One Night, and the Contract Was Signed by My Mother novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Since January
Nobody on the dock moved.
Forty captains stood in the May sun with their caps in their hands, and not one of them looked at me.
They looked at my mother.
Odalys Landry stood in the aisle between the print dresses with her gold thimble in her fist.
"I was twenty-six," she said. "I sewed for the Verlander house. Every Fat Tuesday I pinned the wives."
Her voice carried over the planks.
It was the same voice she used to tell a bride to hold still.
"There was a summer in 1996. Cormac had a wife, and I knew it. I'm not asking anybody to say I was right."
"That's a lie," Cormac said.
He said it hoarse, with the four pages still in his hand.
"It's a summer you remember," my mother said. "Leave the rest of the lie to me."
"You never said a word."
"No," she said. "I didn't."
"If there'd been a child, I'd have known."
"You'd have known if I'd told you," she said. "I didn't."
He came down off the platform.
I watched it happen, and I could not make my feet move.
He crossed the planks in four long steps, the captains parting for him, and stopped in front of my mother.
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