The Hacker Heiress Strikes Back novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: Mother's Daughter
I drove to East Point with both hands on the wheel and said nothing out loud for forty minutes.
Maybelle stood at the stove in her scrubs, stirring a pot of butter beans with a wooden spoon.
She looked at my face and turned off the burner.
"Sit down, baby," she said. "No. I'll sit. You stand there and tell me."
"Mama."
"Is it my girl?"
I had planned a speech in the car.
I had planned a gentle opening and a soft landing and a way to make it hurt less.
"She's alive," I said. "She's Marlena."
Maybelle did not make a sound.
She lowered herself onto a kitchen chair, and she put one hand flat over her mouth.
I laid the doctor's letter in front of her.
She read it with her glasses on, moving her lips, the way she read every chart.
When she got to the second paragraph her hand began to shake.
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