I Funded Their Empire for Years, So They Sent Me the Bill novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: My Stepmother

Fintan held it for five more seconds with every camera on him.

Then the window went up, and the black car pulled out into the traffic and was gone.

The phones swung back to Petra.

She came up the two steps to me and spoke without moving her lips, the way we used to in church.

"Get me out of here."

I took her arm and walked her down through the crowd, saying "No comment" for both of us.

We didn't stop until we were round the corner on Tara Street.

She leaned against a wall and shook.

"He'll have the locks changed by tonight," she said. "Like he did to you."

"It's your house. He can't."

"He can try." She wiped her nose on the camel coat. "I'm going to Mum's tomorrow. I have to show her."

"Good."

"You're coming."

"Petra, your mother..."

"She gave your house away." Petra looked at me hard. "She can look at you while she reads what it bought."

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