My Mother Sold Me to Pay Her Dealer, and the Man Who Took Me From Him Has a Use for Me novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: His House
He had never taken anyone to the house.
It stood at the end of a quiet street off Rutger Park, a brick three-story with a stone stoop and a black iron rail.
It had been his father's before him, and the curtains were drawn in every window.
Valentine unlocked the door with a hand that was not entirely steady.
"Nobody has been in this house in two years," he said. "Except the woman who cleans."
"Not a girl?" I said.
"Never."
"Not one?"
"Not here," he said. "I took them to hotels. I told myself it was discipline."
I stepped into the hall.
It smelled of cold wood and lemon oil and old books.
A staircase with a carved newel post rose beside a hall table with nothing on it.
I took off my coat and laid it on the empty table.
"Show me the bedroom," I said.
He walked up ahead of me, and I followed him up two flights of stairs in the quiet.
The afternoon light came gray through the landing window.
His room was at the top, large and bare, with a high iron bed, a dark dresser and a window over the park.
One picture hung on the wall, an old photograph of a man in a straw hat holding up a fish.
"My father," Valentine said behind me.
"He looks like you," I said.
"I know."
I turned around.
He stood in the doorway with his tie loose and his collar open.
He had sat across from a murderer for an hour and kept his hands still, and I could see what it had cost him in the lines around his mouth.
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