My Fake-Dead Husband Came Crawling After I Became an Heiress novel · Chapter 11 of 24
Chapter 11: Not Again
I walked out of my father's room and shut the door on both of them.
The corridor outside was long and white and nearly empty.
A nurse at the far desk looked up, and a man in a wheelchair slept beside a vending machine.
My mother came out after me.
"Hallie. Hallie, wait."
"He had a guard throw you out of that lobby," I said, to the wall. "Is that why you hated me?"
"I didn't hate you."
"You hit me at a morgue."
"I was frightened."
"Of what?"
She stood behind me, breathing hard.
"Of what you would do when you found out," she said. "Of what you looked like."
I turned around.
"What I looked like?"
"You have his face." The words came out of her in a hiss. "You were five and you looked up at me in that lobby with his eyes, and he looked at you like you were something that crawled in off the street."
"That was his crime."
"And every day after that I looked at you and I saw him." She was shaking now, with real rage, the kind she had never shown a stranger. "Cora needed me. Cora never looked at me like I'd failed her."
"Cora needed you."
"She was easy to love!"
It rang off the white walls.
The nurse at the desk had stood up.
"You let me think I killed them," I said.
"You were never going to learn the truth."
"I thought I was the reason two people died. I was twenty-six. I couldn't sleep for a year."
"You were always so quick to be sorry."
She lifted her hand to slap me again.
I caught her wrist halfway.
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