Accidentally Pregnant with the Horror Boss novel · Chapter 22 of 32

Chapter 22: The Schedule

I picked up the card.

Ambrose read it over my shoulder, and his hand went tight on mine.

"What does it mean?" I said. "Nights don't count for what?"

Nobody answered.

Mouse came out of the wall behind the hall table with the ledger in both arms.

She opened it on the marble floor and turned to the back, where Kyle's pages had been.

There was nothing new there. Just the stubs.

"It's not in here," she said. "But it's real. I can feel it. Like a splinter."

"Mouse. What does it do?"

She looked up at me through her hair.

"The gate counts nights," she said. "On day one hundred, it opens for everybody who has a hundred."

"And mine don't count."

"Yours stay at nothing." Her chin wobbled. "Forever."

The hall was very quiet.

Penny had come up behind us. So had the boy and half the nursery.

"So everybody else goes home on day one hundred," I said. "And I stay."

"Over my dead body," Penny said.

"That's the problem," said the boy. "That's the whole problem with this house."

Ambrose let go of my hand.

He walked into the dining hall without a word.

I ran after him.

Kyle was sitting alone at the far end of the table with a plate of eggs.

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