Don's Regret Came Too Late novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: Not Like That
Nobody in the hallway moved.
I watched Vittorio count.
I watched him do it the way I'd watched a hundred women do it at my counter, on their fingers, under their breath.
May twentieth. June. July. August. September.
Twenty weeks. Twenty-one at the most.
Not thirty-three.
He turned his head, very slowly, and looked at Davide.
Davide laughed softly.
"Doctors," he said. "They always measure big. My mother measured big with me."
"Thank you, doctor," said Vittorio's mother, very clearly. "That's very good news."
The officer with the evidence bag looked at Silvia's curtain, then at me.
"Ma'am, you're free to go," he said. "We'll be talking to Mrs. Corsetti about where this bottle came from."
I walked out through the sliding doors into the cold.
Leandro was leaning on his car at the curb with his arms folded.
He straightened up when he saw me, and opened the passenger door, and didn't ask anything.
I heard fast footsteps behind me on the pavement.
Vittorio.
He stopped a few feet away. His breath was smoking in the October air.
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