Why Cry When You Made Me Leave? novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Quay
Nobody stopped us from leaving the naming hall.
The white-haired elder tapped his cane twice on the floor, and the crowd opened.
Corrado walked beside me with his eyes straight ahead.
I didn't say a word in the car, and neither did he.
We climbed the stairs above the chandler's shop in the dark, and he turned on one lamp.
He stood in the middle of the room with his hands hanging at his sides.
He looked like a man waiting to be sentenced.
"Say it," I said.
"I opened the door."
His voice was so quiet I had to step closer.
"Baldassare came to the dock house at midnight with a bottle under his arm."
"Your father had called him his oldest friend for thirty years."
"I was sixteen, and I was on the door."
"He said he'd come to make peace."
"He asked me to go upstairs and carry you down to bed, because you'd fallen asleep in the office in your boots."
"I did it."
"I wanted him to see how good I was at it."
He swallowed.
"I was on the stairs with you on my shoulder when I smelled the smoke."
"I was the door, Emanuela."
"I let him in, and I handed you to him afterward, and I've known it every day for seventeen years."
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