The Don's Widow Carries His Heir novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Smoke
I rolled off the bed onto the floor.
My mother taught me that when I was six. Smoke goes up. Stay low.
It was the only useful thing she ever taught me about fire.
The air down by the boards was a little thinner.
It was also hot. The floor was hot under my palms.
"Nick!"
I couldn't hear my own voice over the roar.
I crawled toward the living room with one arm over my stomach.
The door was a grey square in the dark.
Then it wasn't there, because he was in it.
He came through on his knees in his T-shirt and sweatpants, coughing, with a wet dish towel over his mouth.
He found my arm on the first try.
"Front stairs are gone," he said. "Back. Now."
"The baby..."
"I've got the baby. You've got you. Move."
He pushed a second wet towel into my hand.
I put it over my face. It smelled like dish soap and burnt sugar.
We went down the hall on our hands and knees.
Past my little bathroom. Past the closet with my coat in it.
I thought about the coat.
I thought about the stork card in my nightstand at the estate, and was glad, stupidly glad, it wasn't here.
The back door to the stairs was steel.
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