Mom Abandoned Me to Save Herself novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: What Rowena Owes
She didn't come in.
She stood just inside the door, on the mat.
In the booth by the window, the gray-haired woman put her fork down.
Augustus came out of the kitchen with his sleeves soaked to the elbow. He saw her and stopped.
Nobody said anything.
I got up off my stool.
Alastair's hand touched my back, once, and let go.
I walked down the aisle between the booths. Every head in the place turned to follow me.
I stopped in front of her.
Up close she looked older than she had in court. There were no lines hidden anymore. No makeup over any of them.
"I'm not staying," she said. "I wanted to see it open. That's all."
"You saw it."
"I did."
She looked past me, at the women in the window booth.
"I signed the house over to their fund on Tuesday," she said. "All of it. The furniture. The paintings. The lawyers said I was a fool."
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