He Sent Me Overseas to Marry Her, I'm Staying Overseas to Never See Him Again novel · Chapter 29 of 32
Chapter 29: Eighty
"Yes," I said.
He waited.
"That's it," I said. "Yes. For you."
He laughed, very quietly, so as not to break the quiet.
Then he pulled the blanket round both of us, and we sat on his father's roof until my feet went numb.
On the second of January I rang my landlord in New York from the glass office.
It was seven in the morning there.
He answered on the first ring, the way he always did when he thought someone owed him money.
"Ms. Kendrick. Happy New Year. You're late with January."
"I'm giving notice," I said. "I'm not coming back."
"You're breaking the lease?"
"I'll pay what I owe. Can the super pack my things?"
"All of it?"
I thought about the apartment.
The good sofa Pierce had chosen.
The framed magazine covers in the hall with his face on them and my bag.
The closet.
"My sketchbooks," I said. "There's a shelf of them in the bedroom. And my grandmother's quilt. Ship those."
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