The Diary of an Unloved Wife novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The New Notebook
I carried the box upstairs and set it on the kitchen table.
Malachy was at the stove in his boxers, making eggs.
He looked over his shoulder at the label.
"Moira?"
"Moira."
"Is it soup? Tell me it's soup."
It wasn't soup.
Under the brown paper there was a shoebox, and inside the shoebox, in tissue, there was a long cream envelope.
My name was on the front in my father's handwriting.
He'd always written my name as if he were signing a contract, with a long tail on the final l.
I sat down very slowly.
On top of the envelope was a folded note from Moira on lined paper.
"He gave me this the week before he died," she'd written.
"He said to give it to you only if you walked out on those people on your own two feet."
"Not if they put you out."
"You've gone. I'm sorry it took me so long to be brave. M."
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