Todos os capítulos de Too Late: She Is Gone With Your Baby: Capítulo 141 - Capítulo 150

Chapter 141. The Night Before the Dinner.ADRIANShe didn't knock. The study door was opened and Aria walked in. It was past eleven. I was still at my desk with a report open that I hadn't read a word of. She had the brass key in one hand and a piece of paper in the other.I saw her eyes were red and I sprang up. "Did something happen? Are you hurt? Did someone.""Sit down," she said.I sat. She came to the desk. She put the paper down in front of me, flat, and took her hand away. "I found that," she said. "Bottom drawer. In her desk." She stopped. "In my desk."Yellow at the edges. A brown ring on one corner. Lines crossed out all the way down. Elena's handwriting. I'd seen it on shopping lists and birthday cards and the notes she left on the kitchen counter when I came home late. Dinner's in the oven. Don't forget your mother's call. Goodnight.The date was in the top corner. I knew that date. It was the night before the dinner at my mother's house. The dinner where my mother as

Chapter 143. Don't Let Him Lose Me.ARIAI read it carefully twice. Respondent was Aria Vale. My name was typed in a box under his."Aria," Julian said again.I didn't look up. I turned to the next page. Then the next. Doctor's visits. School forms. The week Eli had a fever and I was on tour in another city. Julian sitting up with him. All written down, with dates.All of it is  true. All of it written so a judge would read it and think, this man is the one who was there. I put the pages on the floor and  I stood up  for a few  minutes confusedly.  My legs were shaking. I held the glass of water I'd brought down, and my hand was shaking too, so I put it

Chapter 145. The WristbandADRIAN"Adrian."I heard Eli's voice small from inside the hedge. "There's a man," he whispered. "At the gate." I turned my head. The back gate was open. It's never open. Past it, in the lane, a shape. Tall. Long dark coat. He saw me look. He ran."Aria!" I was already up. "Get Eli inside. Lock the door!" I didn't wait to see if she heard me. I went after him. The grass was wet and I slipped. My knee hit the ground and I got up again. The gate was swinging. I went through it so fast it slammed into the wall.The lane was dark. Narrow. High walls both sides. Bins. Somebody's old bike. I heard footsteps ahead of me running.

Chapter 147. The Car in the Mirror.ARIAI brought my own violin into the east wing. But not the little one on the shelf with the missing string. Mine. The one I bought with my own money after two months of saving, back when I didn't know what it was.Adrian had the curtains opened for me in the morning. The dust was still everywhere and nobody had cleaned it. I'd asked them not to on purpose. Eli came with me. He sat on the floor by the piano with his notebook in his lap and his back against the leg of it."Are you going to play the sad one?" he said."I don't know yet.""You always play the sad one when something's wrong.

Chapter 149. The ClauseMARGARETI lied to my son. Not too long ago but five minutes ago. In my own front room, with his wedding photograph on the piano behind him. I told him his father came into the kitchen and said the girl is pregnant. Like my husband had found it out by himself.Adrian was still sitting across from me. He hadn't moved since I said the baby. His hands were flat on his knees, the way his father used to sit when he was trying not to break something."Mother," he said. "Say it again.""He hired that man because of the baby.""How did he know about the baby? Two weeks before she did? Her letter says she was followed for two weeks."I looked at my hands. I could keep lying. I'd done it for five years. It was easy. You just keep your face still and say something close to the truth.I was so tired."Rosa," I said.He frowned. "Who?""Our housekeeper. At your house. When you were married." My voice was coming out wrong. "Sma