I Had a Baby without You novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Eight Floors
For a moment, nobody in the corridor breathed.
Then Roark came across the carpet and took Poppy out of my arms.
"Go on," he said. "I've got her."
"Roark."
"I've got her, Morwen. Go."
He carried her to the service elevator, with one hand cupped over the back of her head.
She waved at me over his shoulder.
I stood up.
My knees held.
Morton watched the elevator doors close.
"Sensible," he said. "Now. The deed."
I walked toward him until I could see the ink on the paper.
It was a good deed.
Crisp, notarized, with the county seal.
My mother's name was on the line above mine.
"You forged this," I said.
"I transferred it. Draycott Holdings is within its rights to sell a property for a dollar."
"You tried to take it for thirty days' notice."
"Circumstances change."
"They changed because I made you look at me."
His eyes narrowed.
"You think you can stand there in an apron and tell me what's mine?"
"I think you want me to take this and leave quietly. I think you can't afford for me to say a single word in public."
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