I Had a Baby without You novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: The Wrong Girl
I found her in the laundromat across the alley.
She was sitting on the floor of the back room between two industrial dryers, with a laundry woman's cardigan around her shoulders.
The woman who had brought the school photo stood guard with a plastic bottle of detergent in her fist.
"Two men grabbed her at the dumpsters," she said. "She bit one."
"Good," I said.
Gretchen lifted her head.
Her lip had split open again.
For the first time since I'd known her, her hair was a mess and her mouth was not painted.
She looked about nineteen.
"I didn't run," she said.
"I was going to come back.
I needed to tell you something and I couldn't do it with him standing there."
"Then tell me."
The laundry woman looked at me.
I nodded, and she left, and shut the door.
I sat down on an overturned bucket, because there was nowhere else.
The dryers ticked as they cooled.
"I met Roark seven years ago,"
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