I Faked My Death, and the Alpha at My Grave Has Lost His Wolf novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Marie
The river went down on the fifth, the ambulance crossed on the sixth, and the clinic nurse who came out with it found nothing to do.
"Textbook," she said, listening to the baby's chest. "Who delivered?"
"Half the Lodge," said Babi.
The nurse looked at the five women in the kitchen, all of them still in their church shoes, eating kolaches off the dish towels.
"Well, they did a good job," she said, and left a pamphlet.
The bread women ran my house for the rest of the week.
One of them washed everything I owned.
One stood in the yard and told visitors the baby was sleeping, whether she was or not.
The heavy woman in the flowered apron came every morning at seven and weighed the baby on the produce scale from the hardware store, to the ounce, and recorded it in a spiral notebook.
On the third day Rudy came up the new steps in his Sunday jacket with a smoked ham in both arms.
He took off his cap at the screen.
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