Scandalous novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The Grandmother
She walked across the broken pavement in good shoes, past the steel drum.
She stopped three feet from Burke.
"My lawyer sent me the recording an hour ago," she said.
"I'm sorry you had to hear it," said Burke.
"I'm not."
She took a folded paper from her coat.
"I listened to it in my car, twice, and then I told my driver to bring me here."
She held the paper out.
Burke didn't take it.
"It's a withdrawal," she said. "The petition for custody.
It has my signature on it, and my lawyer's. He files it at nine on Monday."
The six steelworkers stood in the headlights with their hands at their sides.
They weren't pretending not to listen.
"I filed it because I was afraid," the grandmother said. "I lost my daughter.
I looked at your house and saw a quiet man and a quiet child and thought, who is holding them up?"
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