The Slum Heiress Bringing Down the Elite Clan novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Winifred's Price
Someone knocked on the guesthouse door at six, three times, with the head of a cane.
Rafe was out of bed before I was, with his trousers half on.
I opened the door, and Winifred Saltonstall stood on the step in a black coat with her white hair pinned flat.
Behind her, in his flat cap and yesterday's shirt, stood my father.
"Da."
He opened his arms, and I went into them so fast that I almost knocked off his cap.
He smelled of county jail and bar soap.
"They let me out at five," he said into my hair. "A million dollars, cash bond. I didn't know who in this world had a million dollars for me."
I looked over his shoulder at the old woman.
"I put up the estate," Winifred said. "The house, the land and the pier. If he runs, I lose the lot."
"He won't run," I said.
"I know that. I wanted him out."
She came in without being asked, and she sat in the one chair that did not have a shirt on it.
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