After Eight Years, She Left Me at the Altar for Her First Love novel · Chapter 14 of 48

Chapter 14: Pack Your Bags

The clinic was bare when Troy and the guards reached it, with pale squares on the floor where the cabinets had stood.

Celia did not waste a minute on it.

She had the gray file copied at an all-night print shop, and her assistant carried one set to a bank vault and one to a lawyer who was not her father's.

Her father's men had taken the records, and the proof was already out of their reach.

Troy left her at the hospital under two guards he had picked himself.

It was nearly dawn when he let himself into the apartment.

Every lamp was on, and Molly was sitting on the couch with her knees pulled up.

Her suitcase stood by the door, zipped.

She had changed out of the vest and into a gray sweater, and she did not stand when he came in.

"I heard what she said," Molly told him. "It's your baby."

"Yes."

"Congratulations."

"Molly."

"I mean it. You'll be a good father." She looked at the wall. "I packed. It was never going to be permanent, and the debt's gone now, so there's no reason for me to be here."

He looked at the suitcase.

Something in his chest dropped hard.

"The debt is gone," he said slowly. "You don't owe me anything. You never did."

"I know that."

"Then you're free. You don't have to stay out of gratitude, or because I put a man through a wall for you. If you want to leave, I'll carry the case down myself."

She laughed, a short, cracked sound.

"Is that what you think?"

"What?"

"That I stayed because I owed you?"

She stood.

She crossed the room and stopped close enough that he could smell the soap on her skin.

"The terms were that I'd leave when I got a job," she said. "Remember? Go on, champion. Tell me to pack."

He opened his mouth.

Nothing came.

"I thought so," Molly said.

She took his collar in both fists and pulled his head down.

Her mouth was warm and shaking, and she kissed him hard, with no patience in it.

He made a sound low in his throat and caught her around the waist.

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