The CEO and Her Daughter's Secret Father novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Pickup
Joaquin read the advertisement under my mother's porch light with Luz's sleeping weight on his arm.
"A hundred thousand," he said. "He's undervaluing me."
"It isn't funny."
"It's the only way I know to read it."
I took the paper out of his hand and folded it into thirds.
"You sleep in the house tonight," I said. "Mama has made up the couch."
"Your mother has made up the couch with a quilt and a loaded look."
"She'll unload it by breakfast."
He slept in the front room with his boots on.
I know because I checked at two, and again at four.
On Tuesday afternoon I left a loan officer's office on Bob Bullock Loop with a signed refusal in my bag.
He had stared at his desk the entire time.
The preschool on McPherson Road is a low yellow building with a gravel lot and a fence.
I pulled in at 3:01, and the pickup line was already moving.
Mothers and fathers stood along the fence with their phones out.
A teacher in a green smock held a clipboard at the door and called names.
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