He Called My Inheritance a Forgery in Front of Three Hundred Guests, Then Took Every Blow Meant for Me novel · Chapter 23 of 40
Chapter 23: Danielle's Price
Nobody moved.
Danielle lowered the flashlight so it wasn't in our eyes.
Her hand was shaking.
"Well?" she said. "Are you coming out or not? It's freezing."
Kendrick went up the three stone steps first, with me behind him.
I had my father's notebook flat inside my sweater, against my skin.
The orchard was white with frost.
The sun wasn't up yet, but the sky over the hill had gone pink.
My legs were so stiff I nearly fell on the top step.
Kendrick caught me with his good arm.
Danielle watched him do it.
Something went across her face, quick.
"How did you know?" Kendrick said.
"I heard him," she said.
"Who?"
"Daddy's driver. At two in the morning, in our kitchen in Boston, on the phone to Daddy."
"He said, 'They're in the ice house. I dropped the bar. Nobody goes in the orchard till spring.'"
She hugged her white coat around herself.
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