Claimed by My Ex-Husband novel · Chapter 27 of 48
Chapter 27: The Bench
I stared at the text in the dark, and then I woke him.
Angelo read it sitting up, with the sheet around his waist.
His face didn't change.
"I have never opened your mail," I said. "Not in four years. Not a bill."
"I know."
"That's all? You know?"
"I believed a phone log for the length of one breath once. I'm not spending another."
He put his feet on the floor.
"I'm angry. I'm here. Give me until it's light."
"Who sorted your mail?"
"The mailroom."
"And above the mailroom?"
He sat very still.
"I'll find out," he said.
He called his head of security from the bathroom, and through the door I heard him say the word "tray" four times.
By six I was at my bench with my hands in a bowl of dough and my head full of envelopes.
The owner had a tray of pan de sal coming out of the oven.
I ate one standing up, hot enough to burn the roof of my mouth.
It was the first thing all weekend that did exactly what it said it would.
At seven she unlocked the front, and the Sunday line came in with the cold.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–24 of Claimed by My Ex-Husband are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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