I Lost to My Husband's Ex Twelve Times—Then Found Out His Coin Had No Heads novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Thirty-Five Years
I took the folder out of Neil's hands before he could change his mind.
He let me.
I opened it in the hall with my mother's door open behind me and an aide pretending to wipe a railing.
Six colored tabs.
Behind every tab was a sheet of blank copy paper.
"Where are the pages I signed?"
"Danica's father took them out the week after the wedding," Neil said. "He keeps them in the safe in his study."
"You gave me an empty folder."
"I gave you where they are."
His eyes were red, and I didn't care.
"Saturday is their thirty-fifth anniversary," he said. "Two hundred guests at the brick house. The study is where they leave the coats."
"Why tell me?"
"Because I can't look at myself anymore."
"That's the first useful thing you've ever done," I said.
From inside the room, my mother called, "Close the door on your way out, young man."
Neil went.
That night I stood in Bram's kitchen with the folder and said it all in one breath.
He didn't answer for a while.
"Keller & Sons is catering that party," he said. "Danica's mother booked us in the spring. I meant to cancel it."
"Don't."
"You'd be recognized."
"Then give me a white shirt and a tray."
He looked at me with flour on his forearms.
"Do you want me to say no?" he asked.
"I want you to say why you keep saying yes." My voice came out harder than I meant. "Is it because you feel sorry for me?"
"Hazel."
"You gave me a cot. You gave me cash. You drove me home. I'm your hired help and you pity me, and I would like to know that before I let you do any more of it."
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