The Restoration Rival novel · Chapter 20 of 21
Chapter 20: What Mom Knew
The stove ticked.
My mother folded her hands on the table.
"You were fourteen," she said. "Your father had been gone three months by then. He'd been sleeping at the shop."
"What shop?"
"He had a partner in the shop. A woman from the south. She'd been there two years."
I put my chopsticks down.
"Two years."
"Two years."
"And you knew?"
"I found out in the spring. I didn't know what to do with it. He asked me not to tell you."
"You did what he asked."
"I did what he asked for a while."
She looked at the table.
"Then in the summer he came home and said he was leaving. He said he was going to the south and he was taking you with him."
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