The Discarded Heiress Returns novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: The Night Nurse
Nobody moved to pick up the plate.
Dale reached up and switched the TV off with one finger.
Then he took his truck keys off the hook by the door.
"Daddy," Dorrie said. "Where are you going?"
"Monterey Square."
"No, you're not," I said.
I got between him and the screen door.
He was a head taller than me and twice as wide, and he'd never once in eight years raised his voice at me.
He didn't now either.
"Move, Tallulah."
"That's what she wants. A big angry fry cook on her front steps, live at ten. She's probably got the camera parked there already."
"She said my wife stole a baby."
"I know what she said."
"My wife was in surgery."
His voice cracked down the middle.
"They cut you out of her, Dorrie. She couldn't sit up for two days. How was she in a nursery?"
Dorrie had both hands over her mouth.
Wells quietly took the keys out of Dale's hand and put them in his own pocket.
Dale let him.
He sat down hard at the card table instead.
"There was a nurse," he said, to nobody. "When the lights went."
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