Everyone Mocks the Pregnant "Nobody," She's Secretly the Boss's Wife novel · Chapter 12 of 24
Chapter 12: Whose Daughter
Nolan walked into the archive and let the door swing shut behind him.
The reader beeped and went green, which meant he had a way in that his father did not know about.
"How long have you known?" I said.
"Which part?"
"Whose daughter I am."
He looked at the folder in my arms and then at my face.
"I knew before the Halsey," he said. "Before you ever told me your name."
I stood very still.
"In March I found the Harbor Point file in an audit, and I read it in one sitting," he said. "There was an obituary clipped inside. A man named Collins, a small builder, with a photograph of his wife and his daughter at the funeral."
"My mother," I said.
"And you. Hair pinned up, in a black coat. You were looking straight at the camera."
He set his copy of the file on the cabinet beside mine.
"Six weeks later you walked up to me at the gala bar and asked if I knew where they kept the good whiskey. You didn't say your name. I knew it anyway."
My throat closed.
"You went to bed with me knowing that."
"Yes."
"Every day of four months, Nolan."
"Yes."
I swung the folder and hit him across the chest with it.
It was not hard, because I did not have the strength, but it was enough that papers flew out of the cover and slid across the floor.
He did not step back.
"I let you tell me about your father at three in the morning," I said, and my voice broke. "In bed. And you lay there."
Keep reading free with an account. Start Everyone Mocks the Pregnant "Nobody," She's Secretly the Boss's Wife from Chapter 1, then sign up free to read the rest of this chapter.
← Chapter 11 · All chapters · Chapter 13 →
Want to keep talking to characters like these? Chat with AI romance characters: AI Boyfriend · AI Girlfriend · Dark Romance · Fantasy Romance · BL (Boys’ Love) · Billionaire Boyfriend · Mafia Boyfriend · Possessive Boyfriend · Hockey Boyfriend · Older Boyfriend · K-Drama Boyfriend · Anime Boyfriend · Vampire Boyfriend · Werewolf Boyfriend · Demon Boyfriend · Fae Romance · GL (Girls’ Love) · Anime Girlfriend · Goth & Alt Girlfriend · Gamer Girlfriend · Tsundere Girlfriend · Fantasy Girlfriend