Sweetheart Wife novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Notary
Dale stood three steps from the door, and nobody at the table moved.
"Mr. Middleton," Delilah said, in the voice she used for church luncheons, "you are a guest in my home."
"You are also a convicted man, threatening my family on the night we mourn my husband."
"I'm a convicted man holding a forged page," Jonas said. "Sit down, Dale."
Dale did not sit, and he did not leave.
His mother stood up instead.
She was a thin woman in beige who had not spoken one word all evening, and she picked her purse off the floor.
"Dale," she said. "The car."
"Mother, this is nonsense, they're"
"Now."
She walked past Delilah without looking at her.
Dale followed her out, and at the door he glanced back at me.
His smile did not arrive at all.
Delilah watched them go, and then she turned the full weight of her face on me.
"Get out of my house, Willa."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Sweetheart Wife are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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