I Left Pregnant and Swore She Wasn't His, Now He Wants the Truth novel · Chapter 23 of 32

Chapter 23: Last Dance

"I'll say it first," Gabe told me.

It was Thursday night, and we were at my grandmother's kitchen table with a pot of coffee going cold.

"Say what?"

"All of it. The procedure. The toast. What my father did. I'll stand on his stage and tell two thousand people he cut me off at the knees."

"No," I said.

"Odette."

"It's mine to tell. I'm the one who lied."

"You lied because of me," Gabe said.

"I lied because of both of us. I want them to hear it from my mouth." I flattened my hands on the oilcloth. "If I let you do it, I'm the poor wife again. I'm not that."

My phone lit up beside the sugar bowl.

[Task: Say it in public. Use the microphone.]

I turned the screen so Gabe could read it.

He read it twice.

"It's got a sense of humor," he said.

"It's got a sense of timing."

Mémère came in on the Contraption and lowered herself into a chair.

"What are we fighting about?" she asked.

"Armand has photographs," I said. "Of me and the doctor in Mobile. He's going to put them up on a screen."

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