The CEO and Her Daughter's Secret Father novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Eighteen Months
The visiting room of the federal prison smelled of floor wax and vending-machine coffee.
It had twelve round tables bolted to the floor and a shelf of battered board games.
A guard sat behind a high desk with a crossword.
On the first Saturday we signed in at eight, my mother, my daughter and I.
A woman in a gray uniform checked Luz's drawing for contraband.
"What is it?" the guard asked.
"It's a truck," Luz said, with great patience. "And it's a house, and that's Daddy's hat."
The guard held it up to the light and found it clean.
Joaquin came through the steel door in a khaki uniform, thinner already, and stopped when he saw us.
Luz was across the room before the door closed behind him.
He caught her at the knees and lifted her, and I watched his shoulders shake into her curls.
I stood at the table with my hands flat on the Formica until I could trust my face.
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