They Paid Me to Fix Their Marriage, So I Took Over Their Bed novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: Dane's POV

Dane's POV

The buyers got the keys at noon on Wednesday, and I had the kitchen to sweep before then.

I had swept it twice already.

The house was empty, and the floors rang under my boots, and every sound came back off the bare walls.

Hana was in Kenton moving the last shelf into the new truck.

I stood at the counter with the broom in my hand and looked at the place where the toaster used to sit.

Nine years of mornings were in that corner.

I had stood there in my socks with a cup of coffee, and she had come in from the sunroom door with her hair standing up and said nothing, and I had said nothing back.

I did not have a way to carry that.

The back door opened.

"I said I'd help," Signe said.

She came in out of the cold in her long gray coat with her cheeks pink and her hair pinned up.

She took in the room, and the broom, and my face.

"You've been standing there a while," she said.

"Yes, ma'am," I said.

"Don't call me ma'am."

"No, Doctor," I said.

She put her bag on the floor.

She took the broom out of my hand and leaned it against the wall.

She did it gently, and I let her.

"Show me," she said.

"Show you what?"

"The kitchen. Tell me what happened here."

I looked around.

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