My Husband's First Wife Died a Saint, Then I Found Her Key novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Alive
Patrick's POV
I had pictured this a thousand times.
In every version I fell to my knees.
In this one I stood at the end of a kitchen table and could not feel my hands.
"Sit down, Pat," Ivy said. "You're taller than the room."
I sat.
The chair was a cheap wooden one, and it creaked under me.
She poured tea into the second cup, and the spout rattled against the rim.
She set it in front of me.
I did not touch it.
Edie stayed in the doorway with her arms folded tight across her chest.
She was giving us the room, and I loved her for it, and I could not look at her yet.
"Where were you?" I asked.
My voice sounded like a stranger's.
"Three miles from you. This apartment, mostly." Ivy turned her cup on its saucer. "I took a bus to Atlanta the first night and came back in April."
"You were three miles away," I said.
"I was."
"For three years."
She held my eyes. "Yes."
I put both hands flat on the cloth to keep them still.
"Why?"
She looked at me for a long moment.
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