He Gave Her My Home, So I Took Back My Life novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: Visiting Hours

The county jail's visiting room had six steel tables bolted to the floor and a clock that ran four minutes slow.

Graham was already seated at the last one when the guard let me in.

He wore the orange jumpsuit and had shaved, and there was a purple mark on his knuckles where he had hit Cal's cheekbone.

His lawyer sat beside him with a legal pad and gray circles under his eyes.

"Nor," Graham said. "Thank you for coming."

"Don't call me that."

"Nora, then."

I sat down across from him and put my hands on the table where he could see them.

I had no pen and no form.

"I'll be quick," Graham said. "You've won the news cycle. You have the house, or you will on Monday. I'm not here to fight that."

"Good."

"I'm here about Delphine."

His lawyer slid the legal pad an inch toward me.

"The district attorney is offering her a deal," Graham said. "Probation, if the case against me is clean. If it isn't, she is the one who forged a deed and filed a false complaint, and she goes to prison for years. I can make it clean. I can take the weight."

"On what terms?"

"A trust for Teddy. The house goes into it, and I'm trustee until he's twenty-one." He said it kindly. "It stays in the family. Nobody ever has to sleep in a kitchen again."

I looked at the purple mark on his hand.

"You want me to sign my grandmother's house to you," I said, "so you can keep it from behind a wall."

"I want to keep a three-year-old's mother out of prison."

"She isn't the one who ran Rhys off the road."

His face did not change, but the lawyer's pen stopped.

"Careful," the lawyer said.

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