My Fake-Dead Husband Came Crawling After I Became an Heiress novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Eleven Dollars
Zane drove the whole way with one hand on the wheel and the other wrapped around mine.
The gate of the lake house stood shut, and on the far side of the iron bars a woman sat on the gravel with a bundle in her arms.
She had a man's coat over a hospital gown, and her feet were bare.
Cora looked up as the car stopped.
She did not stand.
I got out and walked to the gate, and Zane stayed by the car, which was what I had asked of him.
The housekeeper hovered on the porch with a tray of tea nobody had asked for.
"Open it," I said.
The gate swung wide.
Cora stayed where she was, on the ground, in the gravel I had stood in last night.
Her face was blotched and swollen.
The baby slept against her collarbone with a fist curled under its chin.
"They discharged me at six," Cora said. "I signed myself out."
"Are you allowed to do that?"
"I don't know. Nobody stopped me."
"How did you get here?"
"I walked to the bus stop. A man gave me his coat." She laughed, small and awful. "Do you know how many people on a bus will look at a woman in a hospital gown and not ask a single question?"
I said nothing.
"Mom's in jail," she said. "Dalton won't answer my calls. His mother changed the locks again."
"I know."
"I have eleven dollars." She turned her hand over on her knee to show me, as if I might not believe it. "I can't go back to Pittsburgh. I can't go to the Fenns. I can't go to Mom's house, because they took the key."
"Why are you here, Cora?"
She took a breath that shook all the way down.
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