The Don's Wife Never Looks Back novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: The Stoop
I stopped at the bottom of the stoop.
"Get out of her house."
"Our house." Livia leaned against the door frame. "She made me first. I just came back late."
Behind me, Nathaniel had gotten out of the Volvo.
He stood at the curb with his hand on the roof of the car, not coming closer.
He was letting me do it.
"How did you get that key?"
"She gave it to the Corsi office four years ago. In case the pipes froze while she was at the clinic." Livia turned the ribbon in her fingers. "I kept the office keys. I kept everything of hers I could."
"You kept my phone too."
Her face didn't flicker.
Across the street, a porch light came on.
Then another one, two houses down.
Bridgeport doesn't need a doorbell.
It hears a woman's voice raised on a stoop after nine o'clock, and it comes out to see.
The old lady next door opened her storm door in her housecoat and curlers.
She'd bought her Easter dresses from Mama for thirty years.
"Mira, honey? Who's that in your mother's house?"
"Her daughter," Livia said, loud and clear, before I could answer. "Her real daughter. The one she gave away."
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