The Slum Heiress Bringing Down the Elite Clan novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Price of a Child
I walked out of Winifred's study without a word, and Dermot came after me down the long hall.
He drove me to the Flats himself, in his own car, with his two men following behind.
Neither of us spoke until Pell Street.
The bar was dark at noon, with the chairs up on the tables.
A white eviction notice was taped to the glass of the door, and Brielle's signature sat at the bottom.
I walked past it, and Dermot locked the door behind us.
"Say it," he said.
"How much did she pay you?"
"Four thousand a month."
"For how long?"
"Twenty-three years."
I did the sum in my head, standing in the place where I had learned to do sums.
It came to more than a million dollars.
"So I was a job," I said.
"Ye were never a job."
"A man was paid to keep a child, and he kept her. That's a job, Da."
"Sit down, Maeve."
"No."
He took something from under the bar and laid it on the wood between us.
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