My Mother Sold Me to Pay Her Dealer, and the Man Who Took Me From Him Has a Use for Me novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The Step
I got to Rutger Street twenty minutes later, and my mother was sitting on the stoop.
She had on the green jacket and nothing under it but a thin shirt.
Her hands were wrapped in her sleeves, and she rocked a little, back and forth, the way she did in the bad hours.
The street was gray and quiet and full of eyes.
Curtains moved in the windows.
A man on the corner pretended to shovel a walk that had already been shoveled.
A woman across the road stood in her doorway with her arms folded.
Everybody on Rutger Street knew Anne Treadwell.
Everybody knew what had been said in the bar, because the whole of Utica knew, and I had given it to them myself.
Valentine had driven me.
He stopped the car at the curb and stayed in it with the engine off.
I looked back at him through the glass, and he met my eyes and nodded once.
His men waited at the end of the block, and nobody came near.
I walked across the road.
I stood at the foot of the stoop and looked up at her, and she looked down at me.
The cold went through my coat.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–6 of My Mother Sold Me to Pay Her Dealer, and the Man Who Took Me From Him Has a Use for Me are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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