The Daughter They Erased Came Back Untouchable novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Her Name
They walked my father out through the main doors of the palace, with an officer on each side.
He did not struggle.
He wore his charcoal suit and his calm face, and he stopped at the top of the wide stone steps.
Below him, behind the barrier, stood the same photographers who had waited at our gate.
Someone had told them.
I never found out who, and I decided I did not want to know.
The flashes started the moment he appeared.
He raised his chin into them.
"Baldassare!" a reporter shouted. "Did you make your daughter lie?"
"Is it true you hid your mother's letters?"
"Signor Falconieri, will you resign?"
"I have been voted out," he said, to nobody in particular.
I stood in the doorway behind him with Fiammetta, Gaetano and Hanna.
Ugo stood a little apart, with his arms hanging.
The senior officer touched my father's elbow, and he turned his head to find me.
He had to look past two police and a flashing wall of light.
"Nerina," he said, in the same gentle voice. "You will want to be careful with that name."
I walked down three steps to stand level with him.
The cameras swung.
"It is my name," I said.
"It is mine."
"You took it off a school list when I was twelve. You took it out of my mouth. You made a girl of fourteen say it and stand in a courtroom and take it away."
"It was for the company."
"It was for you." I did not raise my voice. "Nonna kept it for me."
He looked at me for a long moment.
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