The Stand-In Wife and His Only Obsession novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: Halsey's
I looked at the two halves in his hands.
"Free how?"
"Free all the way." He set the pieces on the counter. "The debt stays forgiven. My lawyers wrote that part in October so nobody could take it back. Not me. Not the board."
"And the rest?"
"There is no rest. No section nine. No year. No date." His voice was very even. "If you stay, it's because you want to. If you go, I'll carry your boxes."
"Lucas."
"You don't have to answer tonight."
I didn't.
I didn't know the answer, and I'd never lied to him yet.
I slept in his bed with my back against his chest, and the halves of the contract stayed on the kitchen counter all night.
【He tore it up. He actually tore it up.】
Marge came up at nine with two coffees and the shoebox.
She put the box in Lucas's hands.
"Twenty notes," she said. "All there. I said I'd bring them back."
He held it a long second.
Then he put it on the top shelf of the hall closet, behind the winter hats, and shut the door.
"The warrant came through at four this morning," Marge said. "His apartment on Riverside Drive."
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