Hit the Jackpot! My Broke Chef Husband Is a Billionaire novel · Chapter 29 of 32

Chapter 29: Hird Avenue

My mother opened the garage door on the nineteenth of December, a week after they gave her a stranger's kidney.

She did it from her wheelchair, with the brass key in her fist and a quilt around her knees.

I stood behind her.

Ewan stood behind me, in a coat three sizes too loose, holding a pillow against his side.

The lock gave with the same small click it always had.

My mother rolled in over the sill and sat very still.

The bulb on its chain, the long scarred bench, the pegboard with its ghosts of hammers.

She looked at all of it for a long time.

Then she reached up to a high shelf above the vise that I had never once thought to check.

She brought down a coffee can.

Inside was a thick stack of small papers, held with a rubber band gone brittle.

I could see the top one from where I stood.

Don't forget milk. Love, N.

"Twenty years of grocery lists," said my mother, and her voice cracked down the middle.

"He kept every one."

I put my hand on her shoulder.

Nobody said anything for a minute.

The doorbell rang in the house.

It was the bank officer, with her navy coat buttoned to the neck and a thick envelope in both hands.

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