When I Flash Married a Billionaire novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Father's House
My father's house had a crooked lantern on the porch and a front bedroom I hadn't entered in eleven years.
Ewan stopped the car at the curb and cut the engine.
"I'll wait here," he said. "It's yours."
Ottilie climbed out of the back seat in Jorie's sweatshirt and her own old key in her fist.
"He's gone," she said, looking at the empty driveway. "The white sedan's not here."
My stepmother opened the door before we knocked.
She had no lace handkerchief this time.
Her eyes were swollen, and she held the doorframe.
"Briony," she said. "Ottilie."
"We came for Mom's drawings," I said.
"Your father is in the kitchen.
"He's been up all night."
The kitchen was exactly as I remembered, with the oak table and the clock shaped like a rooster.
My father sat at the table with his church coat still on, though it was eight in the morning.
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