I Left Pregnant and Swore She Wasn't His, Now He Wants the Truth novel · Chapter 26 of 32

Chapter 26: Dead Air

For a moment the only sound on the whole mill grounds was the hum of the speakers.

Armand stood at the edge of the stage with his hat in his hand.

He had been on a hundred stages.

He had never been asked a question on one.

"Gabriel," he said, low. "Not here."

"Here," said Gabe. "In front of everyone. You said you wanted a crowd."

"This is a family matter."

"You made it a parish matter at your birthday."

The microphone carried every word.

Behind us the white screen still glowed with my wet face fifteen feet tall, and nobody had thought to turn it off.

"Did you drive me to the clinic, Daddy?"

My father's jaw worked.

He looked at the front row, at the foreman and his grandchildren, and the women with their pocketbooks, and Mémère with her blanket.

He looked at the man from the governor's office, who had stopped fanning himself.

Then something in his face gave, a thing I had seen once before, when I tore his check.

"Yes!" he said.

He strode to the microphone and wrenched it out of his son's hand.

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