The Wife Isn't Me novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Certificate
I took the key.
I didn't say yes right away. I said I'd have to see the office.
He said that was fair.
I saw it that afternoon, all dust and old tattoo flash on the walls, and said yes before I'd finished walking in.
The wall came down in October.
By spring the birth center had two new birth rooms, a waiting room with real chairs, and a front step nobody tripped on.
Andrew kept the old step anyway, at the side door, for sentimental reasons.
I still tripped on it.
My office was on the ground floor, by the front window.
A desk. A scanner. Six gray filing cabinets I'd bought used from a state office, out of spite.
A little sign on the door that Trish's son made at school.
RECORDS. NO BAD GUYS.
I went down to one morning a week at Mercy, training the new registrar.
The rest of the time, I filed every baby born at Harbor Birth Center myself.
I checked every box with every mother, in front of her, before we sent it.
In January, a woman came to the front door with a three-year-old boy on her hip and asked for Dr. Galbraith.
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