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Chapter 84: The Reader
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Pregnant the Night My Billionaire Husband Divorced Me Chapter 123: Ninety-One
ElianaJonah refused his supper at six on Friday and was hot by seven.I put the back of my hand to his forehead and then my lips, because Mrs. Tate had taught me that a lip is more honest than a palm, and he was burning under his blanket.His breathing had changed. It came fast and shallow, with a small hollow that appeared under his ribs each time he drew in. When I laid him on the cot he did not kick or grab at the spoon.He turned his face toward the wall of the shed and made a thin, dry sound that was not any of his usual noises."Miss Eliana." Mrs. Tate was already at my shoulder with her sleeves pushed up. "Look at his nostrils. He is working for it.""I see.""The thermometer says a hundred and two. I have taken it three times and it will not say less." Her voice was entirely steady, and I understood that she was afraid. "This is not a night for waiting to see."Ostrander came in from the gate before I had finished asking. He took in the boy and the window together. "Both gray
Pregnant the Night My Billionaire Husband Divorced Me Chapter 122: Early
GraysonMy grandfather had the newspaper spread on the stamp-room blotter at seven on Thursday morning, with his glass lying across the headline and a cup of tea going cold at his elbow."Read it. You will want to have read it before anyone tells you what it says."It was on the second page, without a byline. A question ran across the top. Under it, eleven paragraphs spoke of a bank room, a depot, a hotel account for a suite at the Aldine from the fourteenth of September, and the chief of Northgate Freight.They gave her the name Moore and called the boy her son. They did not give the boy a name.I read it standing, once, and I read the date a second time. The fourteenth of September. I could feel what was under the date, the same sum I had refused to pick up on Monday night, and I stood still and did not pick it up. I turned the page over instead.My grandfather lifted the glass off the headline. "It is a clean piece of work. It asks a question and answers none, so that no one can be
Pregnant the Night My Billionaire Husband Divorced Me Chapter 121: Ask First
ElianaNolan came back to the shed at seven that evening with the cold on his coat and a report he had carried all day."Mr. Abrams asked at noon." He stood inside the door with his cap in his hand. "He asked it kindly, in my office with the door shut, and I told him I had nothing to say. He looked at me for a while.Then he said he'd had a lot of practice at working for a man whose name was in the paper, and went back to his desk." He turned the cap over. "I thought you should know that one man took it well.""Thank you for telling me.""It's not a kindness. You asked me to say nothing, and I'd like you to see what it costs me. I'm not complaining of the price."Mrs. Tate had put Jonah down an hour before, and he lay on his back in the basket with one fist at his ear. I looked at the stove, the cot, the table with the cold tea on it, and the man in the doorway who had not once sat down in my presence without asking."Will you walk out on the jetty with me, Mr. Reed? I would like to s
Pregnant the Night My Billionaire Husband Divorced Me Chapter 120: The Second Ask
ElianaAt nine Teague came across the yard from the gate with his cap in his hand. A man in a bad gray suit was standing in the road with a paper bag, he reported, asking for Miss Thomas. He had been told twice to go away.Ostrander turned from the window. "What does he say when you tell him?""He says he's been expecting to be refused for weeks and he'd like it done properly, in front of a witness."I put the newspaper face down on the cot beside the basket. Jonah was awake and trying to swallow his own fist while Mrs. Tate held him upright on her knee. "Let him in, Mr. Teague."Falk crossed the swept stones at his own pace, with the bag held out a little from his side to keep it level. He came to the shed door and wiped his shoes on the sill, although nothing on them could have been improved. Then he saw the boy, and he stopped smiling for a good five seconds.Falk bent a little toward the boy. "Hello."Jonah took the fist out of his mouth, considered him, and gave a loud and confid
Pregnant the Night My Billionaire Husband Divorced Me Chapter 119: A Name in Print
ElianaStan Kowal locked the canteen door behind the last driver at six on Wednesday and turned the sign. Then he sat with his arms folded at the table by the office, where he could see everything and be asked nothing.Isaac Yates came in through the loading dock at ten past six with his notebook in his coat and a manila folder under his arm. He did not knock over a cup this time. He set the folder on the steel table between us and laid one hand on the lid of it, and I knew from that it would be bad."I wrote to the drivers because you asked first." He did not sit down. "I'd like to ask first now. You should hear it from me before you read it Friday.""Mrs. Brandt told me you had telephoned.""A woman came to my desk on Friday morning with a folder, and I gave her my word I wouldn't say her name." He opened his own. "She was soft-spoken, and she was ill. She said she'd been told you had a child.She said the child's father was a man you had been seen with at a bank and a depot, and sh
Pregnant the Night My Billionaire Husband Divorced Me Chapter 118: Seventeen
GraysonMark made his report standing in the stamp room, in the order things had happened, with his hat in both hands and his eyes on the tray of unmounted stamps."She left through the kitchen at twenty to four, sir. The cook let her out and then came to find me, so I lost four minutes. She took a taxi from the rank at the end of the lane, and I followed it to a branch library near Miss Thomas's old street." He gripped the hat tighter. "She went up the six steps at the door two at a time."My grandfather had been looking at his glass and a stamp that lay under it. He did not look up. "Say that again.""Two at a time, sir. At the top she stopped for a second, and then she went in slow."I had watched her cross a lobby in her stockings on Saturday faster than I had ever seen her move, and I had put it down to fear. I set the two beside each other now and did not like how they fitted."What was said in the room?""She asked Miss Thomas whether the little boy has a father who knows about
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