Traded to His Enemy, Pregnant With His Heir novel · Chapter 43 of 48
Chapter 43: Conlon's Daughter
I took the paper out of Galina's hand.
The story was on page one and ran on to page six.
It had my mother at nineteen, and the pub on Broadway.
It had a soft-spoken man who'd loved her all his life and lost her to her own fear.
It had me, the daughter he'd never been allowed to raise, kept now in a Russian's tower.
It had no back room in it, and no man with his head kicked soft.
I folded it in half and put it face down on the kitchen island.
"He's written her a love story," I said.
"He's written you a cage," Ilya said.
At nine the hospital called.
It was the nursing director, who'd pinned my first badge on me at twenty-two.
"Shona, I'm so sorry," she said. "There are cameras on the ambulance ramp. Legal wants you on paid leave until this settles."
"I'm on tonight."
"Not tonight. Not this month."
"Then who's covering Trauma One?"
She didn't have an answer.
At eleven the grey-bearded brigadier came up to the kitchen with his hat in his hand and didn't sit down.
"The wives talk," he said. "Some won't bring the children to church Sunday. They say the Irish girl brings the Irish shooting."
"Do you say it?"
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