I Had a Baby without You novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Brake Line
I did not let her in until Roark said her name.
He said it twice, in a flat voice.
"Gretchen."
"It's me."
"Say something else."
"The radiator in the linen room banged three times a minute," she said.
"You told me that years ago.
I told everyone it was my story."
His shoulders dropped half an inch.
I took the chain off.
She came in smelling of rain and cigarette smoke and the cold inside of a car.
I put her in the kitchen on an upturned crate and gave her a bag of frozen peas for her lip.
She held it there without a sound.
Roark stood at the far counter with his arms crossed over his ribs.
"Where's the laptop?" he said.
"Rhona's in the office."
"Get it."
I got it.
Gretchen put the drive into the side and her hands shook so badly that Roark had to take it from her.
He couldn't read the screen.
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