My Husband Called Me Barren, Now a Billionaire Begs for Me novel · Chapter 27 of 32

Chapter 27: What She Said

Margaux gave Manon a chair in the hall and a glass of water, and nothing else.

The girl sat with her coat open over her stomach and her suitcase between her feet.

She was thirty-eight weeks along and she looked twelve.

"Hortense's staff put me out of the villa this morning," Manon said. "They said the house was being searched."

"And the man from the club?"

"His family changed their number."

"And your father?"

Manon laughed, and it came out wet.

"My father says I have shamed him. He says I should have waited for a proper engagement."

Margaux said nothing.

"Thibault told me you were his sister's friend," Manon said. "He said it was a favour. He said you were only staying a while."

"I know. You told me in a washroom."

"I took your pendant. I wore your dress." She bent over the suitcase. "I'm not asking you to like me."

"Good."

"I'm asking where I can have it."

Margaux looked at the round, blotched, twenty-year-old face.

She felt a great tired anger, and under it something smaller.

It was not forgiveness.

It was only the knowledge that she had once sat on a bathroom floor with nobody to ring.

"You cannot stay here," she said.

Manon nodded and wiped her nose.

"But there is a place on the rue Garibaldi for mothers with no home. Lise's cousin runs the midwife desk. A guard will drive you now, and the first three months are paid."

"Paid by whom?"

"By the two hundred thousand euros your husband sent me, the week he lied to me on the phone." Margaux's voice did not change. "It was always going to pay for something."

Manon stared at her.

"Why would you..."

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