The Billionaire Married a Homeless Girl novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: The Library

I did not answer my father, and I did not look at him again.

I walked into the elevator with my husband beside me and watched the doors close on a red face.

In the car, Nolan sat with his hands on his knees.

"You gave up your claim on him," I said. "In front of a judge."

"Yes."

"You didn't tell me first."

"I said I was sorry."

"You said it, and it wasn't the part that mattered."

He turned his head.

"What was?"

"Nobody has ever given me something without a price on it," I said. "I don't know where to put it."

He said nothing, and I was glad.

That night I put Benji to bed myself, with the dinosaur book in the voices.

I read the stegosaurus part twice, because he made me.

Then I stood in the hall outside my locked guest room, with the key in my fist, and I did not use it.

The house was quiet.

A line of yellow light lay under the library door at the bottom of the stairs.

I went down in bare feet.

The library was a long room with oak shelves to the ceiling, a rolling ladder, and a fireplace burning low.

Nolan sat in the leather chair by the fire in his shirtsleeves, with a picture book open on his knee.

He was reading it out loud to nobody, in a whisper.

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