He Ruined Me—Now He Crawls Back Begging novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: What It Costs

"Do you want me to send her away?" the charge nurse said.

I thought about it.

"No," I said. "Put her in the family room. I'll go when I've got a minute."

I made her wait forty minutes.

I didn't do it on purpose.

A man came in with chest pain, and then a girl who'd swallowed her mother's pills.

I didn't think about the family room once.

When I finally opened the door, she was sitting on the plastic couch under the bad painting of a lake.

I almost didn't know her.

No pearls. No makeup.

Her hair was pulled back with a rubber band.

She was wearing a camel coat over what looked like a nightgown, and running shoes.

She stood up when I came in.

"Wynn."

I shut the door and leaned on it. My knee hurt. I didn't sit.

"You've got five minutes," I said. "Then I've got a girl who swallowed a bottle of Tylenol."

She nodded too many times.

"They arrested your father this afternoon," she said. "At the house. In front of the neighbors."

"I saw."

"The detectives talked to me for six hours." Her hands twisted in her lap. "I told them. Everything. The driveway. The contract. The body shop. All of it."

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