His Love Was My Poison novel · Chapter 25 of 48
Chapter 25: She Got Out
On Friday nights, in our narrow brick house, we eat dinner around a candle.
It was a Friday in late April, and I was five months pregnant.
The candle was a short, crooked jam jar of soy wax that Posy had poured in her art elective.
She had made a new batch that week, eight of them, all lopsided in the same proud way.
I had tested the wax and the wick at six o'clock.
The kit sat on the kitchen counter between the salt and the pepper.
Green, then green again.
Posy stood at my elbow the whole ten minutes with her arms folded.
"You could say 'thank you, Posy,'" she said, when the second light came up.
"Thank you, Posy."
"You could say it like you mean it."
"I'm carrying a human being and I'm tired and I mean it with my whole spine."
"Accepted," she said, and struck the match herself.
She was thirteen now, and three inches taller than at the wedding.
She had also started getting paid, which she mentioned about once an hour.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–24 of His Love Was My Poison are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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