Second Choice Wife novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Quarry Road
Heath stood in the headlights with the corn rustling on both sides of him.
He didn't look at the sky or at me.
He looked at the asphalt in front of Joelle's sneakers.
"You have the facts," he said. "I'm not going to walk you through that night again."
"I came to tell you what I left out."
"I believed a man in a uniform because I was eighteen and I wanted to be someone's hero."
"That's the part I'm most ashamed of."
"Not the lie. How much I liked being thanked for it."
I watched Joelle's face.
It didn't move.
"For ten years I could have knocked on your door," he said. "I paid your rent instead, because paying was easier than being looked at."
"Every check was a way to stay off your porch."
"I called it guilt money, even in my own head, and I told myself that made it honest."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Second Choice Wife are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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