His Ex Never Left the Family, So I Left the Marriage novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Newark
I read the line in gold script three times.
Then I zoomed in on the number.
Two hundred thousand dollars, printed in a typeface I had picked out myself.
Two hundred and twenty copies, one on every plate.
I didn't approve it.
I didn't reject it either.
I wrote back to the printer that I'd confirm by Friday, and I got out of bed.
Twice a year I mailed a card to Newark, Ohio.
One at Christmas, and one for his birthday in May.
Max signed them. I addressed them.
He always drew a dinosaur on the envelope, and I always wrote "Grandpa" over the street number so the mail carrier would smile.
Andrea had never once asked who mailed them.
On Thursday morning I put the address into my phone and drove east.
Forty minutes of farm fields and gas stations.
The house was a small white ranch on a quiet street near the old glass factory.
Half the roof was covered in a blue tarp, held down with bricks.
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