Why Cry When You Made Me Leave? novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Ines
My mother came up the chandler's stairs at ten that night with a scarf over her hair and no driver.
I had never seen Ines Cardinale go anywhere alone.
She stood in the doorway of the room with her handbag held in front of her in both hands.
Corrado got up from the table, took his coat, and went down to the street without a word.
The door closed behind him.
"You still have the key," Ines said.
"It opens your front door," I said.
"It's the only one in the house my husband doesn't carry."
"I had it cut the day you were born into it."
"I wanted you to be able to come home, and I never gave it to you."
"Why not?"
Her eyes filled.
"Because he'd have noticed."
She sat down at the table across from me, and her hands shook so badly she had to put the handbag down.
"He came in at four in the morning seventeen years ago," she said.
"He smelled of smoke."
"He carried a child wrapped in his coat, with one yellow boot on."
"He said, 'She's ours now, Ines.'"
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