My Stepfather Sold Me at the Card Table, and the Man Who Won Me Never Looked My Way novel · Chapter 8 of 24
Chapter 8: Cold Again
He was gone from the bed by the time I woke, and the room was cold and smelled of him.
I lay with my hand in the dent he had left in the pillow and counted what had happened in the night.
One mouth, two hands, three times, and a car door.
Bram had not come into the house.
He had stood at the foot of the drive for a quarter of an hour, and then his engine started and he left.
Cormick had lain beside me rigid as wood until the sound died.
He hadn't said another word.
Some hour I couldn't account for, he had kissed my forehead, once, hard, and gone down the hall.
I went down to breakfast at nine with my braid redone and my chin up.
Bram was at the table.
He sat in my chair with his coat on the hook behind him and a cup of coffee in front of him.
Enid stood at the stove with her back as straight as a ruler.
"Morning, kiddo," Bram said. "Slept in, I hear. Good, you work hard."
Cormick sat at the head in his black coat, clean-shaven, with the face I had seen at the card table.
It was closed and smooth as a stone.
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