He Ransomed His Secret Son and Left Our Daughter novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Little Girl's Rabbit
Dario looked down at the solemn face on the pillow next to his.
He swallowed once.
"If you want me to be," he said.
Lily thought it over.
"Okay," she said. "But you have to make better pancakes."
He started to laugh, and then his eyes went wet, and he pulled the sheet higher and pretended he hadn't.
A year later, on the third Sunday of June, Colin Hargrove stood in a federal courtroom in Newark to be sentenced.
I sat in the last row in a gray dress, alone.
He looked thinner, and his hair had gone gray at the temples.
He wore a county jumpsuit, and he held his hands folded in front of him.
The judge read the number aloud: nine years.
He had pleaded guilty to everything.
He had testified for six days against the Sartori family's money men.
His ledgers had put four of them away.
"Mr. Hargrove," the judge said. "Do you wish to speak?"
"Yes, Your Honor."
He turned toward the rows.
He found me at once, and I watched his eyes go past me, looking for a child's face.
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