Now I Watch Her Love Him novel · Chapter 9 of 24

Chapter 9: Served

Dylan's POV

Monday morning at ten the showroom was full.

It was the last cold week of November, and people come in when it's cold, because the cars are warm and the coffee is free.

A couple in matching parkas was leaning over the hood of a pickup.

My father stood at the sales desk with a stack of paper, laughing at something a salesman had said.

Bailey sat at the marketing station behind the glass partition, with her laptop open and her eyes on the screen.

She had been back for two days and had not looked at me once.

I was holding a cup of coffee when the front doors opened.

Hannah walked in.

She wore her long wool coat, and under it, I could see the collar of a man's canvas jacket.

Her hair was pinned up.

She carried a manila envelope in her right hand, and she came straight across the tile.

Every salesperson in the building turned to look.

"Hannah," my father said, delighted, and then he saw her face. "Honey?"

"Hello, Russell."

She stopped in front of me.

I put the coffee down so I wouldn't spill it.

"Dylan," she said, in a clear, ordinary voice that carried all the way to the service door. "This is for you."

She held out the envelope.

I took it, because my hand moved before my head did.

The top sheet had a county seal and my name.

In Re: Dissolution of Marriage.

The room had gone quiet except for the heater.

"You've been served," Hannah said. "You don't have to open it now."

"Here?" My voice cracked. "You couldn't have..."

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