The Nanny, the Husband, and the Woman They Forgot I Was novel · Chapter 25 of 32

Chapter 25: The Driveway

I closed my hand around the stick.

"How?" I said. "She's with my neighbor right now. He can't just take her."

"He doesn't have to take her." Harper pushed her sunglasses up. "It's his weekend. Five o'clock. Front door. You hand her over yourself."

I felt the parking lot tilt.

"The flight's at seven tomorrow morning," she said. "He told me it was a business trip. I saw the booking on his laptop last night. Two seats. I asked who the second one was for."

"What did he say?"

"He said, 'Not you.'" She laughed, an awful little sound. "Six years. 'Not you.'"

"Why are you giving me this?"

She looked at me for a long moment.

"Because I held her the night she came home," she said. "And she screamed when I picked her up in your living room. I know whose she is. I'm not stupid. I'm just..."

She didn't finish.

She pulled her sunglasses back down and walked away across the lot.

I didn't watch her go.

I was already dialing Vivian.

Vivian came to my house instead of her office.

She walked through my front door at eleven with her laptop and a man I'd never seen.

He was in his forties, in a gray suit, with a federal badge on his belt.

"He's been reading your whistleblower complaint since Tuesday," Vivian said. "Show him."

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