Hit the Jackpot! My Broke Chef Husband Is a Billionaire novel · Chapter 26 of 32

Chapter 26: Paired Exchange

At midnight on the fifth the lean man from the county handed my mother a ring of keys in a plastic bag.

"These were in Mr. Hubbard's pocket," he said. "The brass one is the front door. It's your house, ma'am. I'm just the delivery boy."

Hird Avenue was dark and cold.

The green awning my father built hung over the porch.

Across the street two neighbors stood on their steps in their dressing gowns.

My mother turned the new lock herself.

Her fingers were thin and clumsy on the key, and nobody helped her.

The door swung in on the smell of cold carpet and furniture polish.

She rolled over the threshold, stopped in the front hall, and put her hand flat on the wall.

"Ray," she said, to nobody. "I'm back."

Maude stood behind her with the cane over her shoulder, sniffing hard.

"I'll sleep on your couch," Maude announced. "Don't argue."

I stood on the porch with Ewan in the freezing air.

The tern was still pinned at my shoulder, and my breath hung in front of me.

"It's midnight," he said.

"I noticed."

"You told me to ask again."

"I did."

He took off his tuxedo jacket and put it around my shoulders without being asked.

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