Claimed by My Ex-Husband novel · Chapter 39 of 48

Chapter 39: The Letter in the Drawer

On Sunday morning I asked Angelo to bring me the drawer.

He stood in the guest room door with his coffee.

"The whole drawer?"

"What's in it that's mine. The letter."

He didn't ask which letter.

He went upstairs two steps at a time, and he came back down with a blue envelope in his hand.

It had been in the drawer since December.

It lay under the book with the receipt in it and the leather folder of old boarding passes.

The corner was soft from being moved.

The return address was a state prison, and my name was written across the front in Noelle's neat blue ink.

"You don't have to," Angelo said.

"I know."

"I'll sit here."

"I know that too."

I had told her I'd read it when I was ready to be surprised.

I wasn't ready.

I was lying in the bed I'd been told to stay in.

The doctor wanted to see the heartbeat again on Thursday.

I opened the envelope anyway.

It was one page.

It was written in the careful round hand that had once labeled birthday cards for the whole Grand.

"Tala, hon," it began.

"I kept every one of them. A hundred and twenty-four, and you'll think that was me. It wasn't only me.

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