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Chapter 46: Look

Penulis: Denton Mercer
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-10-25 00:25:40

By the time the boy was eighteen days old, the card left by the man who had asked for a baby Moore had told us nothing. It held only a number. Ostrander traced it in an afternoon to a dentist's answering service in New Jersey, and it cost two hundred dollars. Dr. Whitaker kept me three days.

On the fourth Ostrander brought us home by the laundry lift and the shop's back door, and Mrs. Tate carried the baby up the stairs herself, because she said I was not to be trusted with a flight of anything
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