He Left Me in the Snow for Her Labor, So I Delivered It novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: Signed

I stood up in the green dress with three hundred people watching, and I let go of Sabine's hand.

"No, Bram," I said.

My voice carried farther than I had meant it to.

"I'm not coming home. You told the nurse you had no wife at this hospital. I'm making that true."

He opened his mouth, and a woman at the next table laughed out loud and then clapped her hand over her face.

"You'll be served on Monday," I said. "Enjoy the evening."

I turned my back on him and took Roderick's arm, and we walked out through the middle of the room.

Nobody tried to stop us.

On Tuesday afternoon I sat at my lawyer's long table in a gray suit, with a pen.

Bram came in at ten past three with his own lawyer and no tie.

He had not slept.

His lawyer said, quietly, that his client wished to resolve matters without a hearing.

Bram looked at me across the table, and I waited for him to say something to me as a person.

"The company is going under," he said. "I need the house, Ines. For collateral. Just for a few months. You'd be doing it for me."

"No."

"After everything, you owe me the chance to fix this."

My lawyer opened her folder and took out one sheet of paper.

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