Sweetheart Wife novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Held the Door
"Lacey, be quiet," Delilah said.
Lacey did not look at her.
She held the microphone stand with one hand and kept her eyes on me.
"Dale called me from a borrowed phone that night," she said.
"I was eighteen, and I was in my mother's car at the end of River Road."
"He came out of the woods with leaves in his hair, and he said get me out of here."
"I held the passenger door open for him."
Her breath caught.
"The sky behind the trees was orange, and I looked back down the road."
"There was a girl hauling a man backward out of a burning Jeep, heels dug in."
"I saw her stumble. I saw her fall down and get up."
"And I shut the door and drove away."
She said it to me and to nobody else.
I felt Jonas, behind me on the steps, go still as stone.
"It was you," I said. My throat had closed. "I heard a car engine on the road, and I thought it was help."
"It was me," Lacey said.
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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