They Chose the Daughter I Found, So I Called In Their Loans novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Yellow Card
My mother looked at the card on the podium for a long time.
She did not touch it.
My father picked it up instead.
He read it aloud in a flat, dazed voice.
"No such child. G. Selwyn."
He turned it over.
"There's a date. April, thirteen years ago. And a time." He looked up at Ulysses. "Where did you get this?"
"From my investigator's file," Ulysses said. "He came to your front door on Chestnut Street with a photograph of my wife and one of my daughter at two. Your wife answered. She told him there was no such child in your house. She signed the card to say she'd said it."
"Gwen," my father said.
"It's forged," my mother said.
"The handwriting's yours," my father said.
"Anybody can copy a hand..."
"Gwen." He had not raised his voice, and it was the quietest I had ever heard it. "Jacqueline was fifteen that April. You came to dinner that night and said the school play was running late."
My mother said nothing.
The only sound in the ballroom was a spoon being set down on a plate, somewhere in the back.
She turned on the stage and looked at the crowd, at four hundred faces she had known for thirty years.
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