My Mother Called Me Fake, So Six Brothers Came for Me novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Three Years
Nuala's POV
He made eggs again, in four ways, on a table set for two.
I would have laughed if I hadn't been carrying it for three weeks.
The house in Pacific Heights was narrow and quiet, with books on every wall and a gray greyhound who inspected my lemon tart and approved it.
I waited until he had put down the serving spoon.
"March," I said.
He went very still.
"The east corridor," I said.
"You were at the end of it with your leather folder.
"You looked right at us, and you went back through the fire door."
"Yes," Lawson said.
"And the Christmas gala before that," I said.
My voice did not shake.
"I saw you hear it."
"Yes."
"You watched her cut me down for three years," I said, "and you signed her lease."
He did not say he was sorry yet, and he did not say it wasn't what it looked like.
He looked straight at me.
"I told myself it wasn't my place," he said.
"The real reason was that I had a renewal on my desk, and she is the woman who signs my rent."
He did not look away.
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