Accidentally Pregnant with the Horror Boss novel · Chapter 21 of 32

Chapter 21: Names

For ten days, nothing in Gravemoor tried to kill anybody.

Mouse slept with the red ledger under her pillow in the dollhouse, and the pen tied back on with a pink hair ribbon.

I went into the kitchen every morning just because I could.

The cook's fingers didn't grow back. She didn't seem to mind. She made me eat two breakfasts anyway.

Kyle ate alone at the far end of the table and never said a word. I kept waiting for that missing page.

It didn't come.

On night thirty-four, Penny threw my toothbrush at me.

"Go."

"Go where?"

"You've been sleeping on a nanny bed with a ghost on your feet for a month. Go sleep with your husband."

"The guests sleep better with me here."

"The guests are fine. I'm here. The brave one's here. Mouse is out like a light in the dollhouse." She pointed at the door. "Go, or I'm telling him you snore."

"I don't snore."

"You snore like a leaf blower."

I went.

It was half past eleven when I knocked.

He opened the door in his shirtsleeves, cuffs rolled to the elbow, head on his shoulders.

The fire was going. The bed was turned down.

"Penny kicked me out," I said.

"Remind me to thank her."

I came in and shut the door behind me.

I was wearing a long white cotton nightgown from the attic, the kind with buttons all the way down the front. His gray robe over it.

He looked at the robe for a long time.

"You kept that," he said.

"You never asked for it back."

He held his hands out between us, palms up, in the firelight.

The light didn't go through them. It stopped right at his skin, gold on the knuckles.

"I keep checking," he said. "Every hour. I keep holding them up to a window."

"They're there."

"For a few days I couldn't feel anything you touched me with. Your hair. Your hand."

I took his hand and put it on my cheek.

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