My Mother Sold Me to Pay Her Dealer, and the Man Who Took Me From Him Has a Use for Me novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Her Mother's Coat
We came down out of the mountains on Saturday afternoon, and my mother was waiting in the cold outside the ward.
I saw her from the car.
The plow had been through Genesee Street and left the banks gray and ridged, and she stood at the edge of the staff lot in a green nylon jacket too big for her.
She was thin, thinner than in October.
Her hair had been dyed auburn once and had gone brassy.
She had her arms wrapped around herself and her feet turning in the slush, and she watched every car.
"Stop here," I said.
Valentine pulled to the curb under the bus shelter.
"Do you want me to come?" he said.
"No."
"Do you want my men to?"
"No." I opened the door. "Stay in the car. Please."
"Bronwen."
"If you get out, I'll never know what I'd have said," I said. "I need to know."
He nodded once and took his hands off the wheel.
The man in the gray cap had been following us in the second car.
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