The Widowed Don Hired a Doctor for His Son, and She Brought Two Boys Who Wore His Face novel · Chapter 10 of 24
Chapter 10: Your Rule, Husband
I pulled on his shirt and went across the hall barefoot.
The study door stood a hand's width open.
Nico sat at the desk in his undershirt and trousers with a lamp pulled close and a stack of papers in front of him.
He didn't look up.
"I'm sorry," he said.
"I woke you."
"The bed was cold," I said.
"I know.
"I couldn't stay in it."
I came in and sat on the arm of the leather chair.
The papers were bank statements, the long kind folded in thirds, with a bank's name across the top in blue.
There were dozens of them, going back years.
Beside them lay a manila folder marked in a woman's neat handwriting: THE HOUSE.
"Biagio gave them to me last week," Nico said.
"He said a husband should know the books before the wedding.
"I put them in the drawer and forgot."
"And tonight?" I asked.
"Tonight I woke up and thought that I'd never read a page of what my first wife left," he said.
"It's seven figures, Ines.
"It's the leases, the cold storage, the trucking, years of wharf money.
"She moved a little every month into an account in her own name.
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