Two Billionaire Brothers Hired Me and Warned Me About Each Other novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: Thirty-Six Years

I took the first bus down the hill at five.

I sat in the back with my bag on my knees and did not cry.

The kitchen light was on in the rowhouse on Forty-Fourth Street.

My mother sat at the table in her bathrobe, with a cup of tea going cold in front of her.

She looked up when I came in, and she saw my face, and she did not ask.

"You went to the house," Rosalie said.

"I found page two hundred and eleven."

She closed her eyes.

I put my bag down and sat across from her.

The radiator knocked twice, and the clock over the stove ticked.

"Tell me," I said.

"It was a long time ago."

"Thirty-six years. I did the math in the snow." I kept my voice as steady as I could. "Tell me, Mom. Please."

She took off her glasses and set them on the table.

"My mother was sick," Rosalie said.

"She'd lost her job at the laundry, and I had a younger brother in school."

She turned her cup.

"The priest knew Mrs. Kostka from the parish. He said there was a place for a girl who could keep a house."

"At nineteen."

"At nineteen," she said. "I had never been in a house that big in my life."

She looked at her hands.

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