My Daughter Is Dying, and My Husband Is Saving His Lover's Son novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: Every Photo
Four hundred heads turned toward the door.
Clara stood there in her crown with her finger still pointed at the screen.
My mother put both hands on her shoulders.
"Time's up, sweetheart," she said, and steered her out.
Clara went, but she said "That's MINE" one more time over her shoulder, and the doors swung shut on it.
On the stage, Tasha laughed, a soft little laugh into the microphone.
"Poor thing," she said. "Children say such things. Security?"
Nobody from security moved.
I stood up.
I walked up the steps at the side of the stage in my green dress.
A young man in black with a headset was crouched beside the steps at the sound board.
He looked at the screen, then at me, and put a second microphone in my hand.
"My little sister was on seven last year," he said, very low.
I turned around and faced the room.
"My name is Heidi Sorensen," I said. "That port belongs to my daughter, Clara. She's seven. You just heard her."
Tasha stepped toward me with her own microphone.
"This woman has been harassing my family for months," she said. "She's being sued."
"For a million dollars," I said. "Since Thursday."
I held my phone out to the young man at the sound board.
"Can you put this up next to hers?"
He already had a cable in his hand.
The screen split in two.
On the left, Tasha's slide. Clara's port. "Caden's port, day one."
On the right, the same picture, from my camera roll.
The date in the corner. The time. The name of my own phone.
"I took that picture in February," I said. "In room nine, on the seventh floor of the children's hospital. Her father airdropped it off my phone that night."
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