Todos los capítulos de Too Late: She Is Gone With Your Baby: Capítulo 81 - Capítulo 90

Chapter 82ELIMarcus was observant for someone who was not specifically conducting an investigation. I had noted this about him before."Just a man," I said."Do you know him?"I thought about this question carefully, the way I thought about questions that had more than one possible answer."Sort of," I said. "Not really."Marcus accepted this and moved on to telling me about the thing he had been building with the blocks, which had become a fortress with a drawbridge system that he was very proud of. I listened and made the appropriate responses and thought about the man across the street and what his being there meant for my investigation.New entry, I thought. He came to the daycare. He did not come inside. He stood across the street and when I saw him he left.I did not know what to do with that piece of evidence yet.The detective show had taught me that some evidence took time to understand. You recorded it a

Chapter 84ADRIANI did not go to the final dress rehearsal.I had considered it, had known the date and the time, had told myself that attending was professionally reasonable given the contract arrangement. Then I had thought about Ethan's words and what they meant and I had decided that professionally reasonable was not the standard I was applying anymore.I went to the second to last performance instead.The Thursday evening show, the penultimate one before the closing night, the one that would not carry the weight of finality that the last one would. I bought a ticket through the standard channel, not through the building's management or any connection the Hart name carried. A regular ticket, third from the back, the far right of the row.I arrived after the house lights had dimmed.The hall was full. Aria walked onto the stage.She was in a dark dress, her hair up, she looked beautiful.That was the only wa

Chapter 86ARIA"That is not how we—""Tell him to go away." Louder now. The dignified suffering gone entirely, just the five year old underneath it, who had been conducting his investigation and carrying his notebook and trying to understand the shape of things and had found the shape tonight in the refrigerated section and had reached the limit of what he could contain."Eli." I crouched down to his level. "You do not throw things at people. You do not. That is not acceptable and you know it is not acceptable and I need you to look at me."He was looking at the floor."Look at me," I said.He looked at me. His eyes were bright and his jaw was tight and he was doing the thing where the tears were there but he was not going to let them come because he had decided crying was losing and he did not want to lose right now."You are going to apologize," I said."I'm not," he said."Eli.""I'm not goi

Chapter 88JULIAN"I know," I said."The ring," she said.I looked at her."You still have not asked for it back," she said. "The engagement ring. You proposed to her with it and you cancelled the wedding and you moved to a separate hotel and you are sitting in a VIP club in the elevated section drinking shots, and she is still wearing your ring."I had not thought about the ring.That was the truth of it and it was a strange truth because I was generally a man who thought about things, who accounted for details and logistics and the practical reality of arrangements. The ring had simply not arrived in my thinking."I should ask for it back," I said."No," Vivian said.I looked at her."Asking for it back is cruel," she said. "She is already dealing with enough. She does not need you calling or sending a message to say please return the jewelry." She picked up the next shot. "Leave it. She will deal with it i

Chapter 90ELI I am sorry I threw the juice. I am not sorry that I am angry. You made Jules go to a different hotel and I know that is not the whole reason but it is a big part of the reason and I do not think grown-ups tell the truth about how much of the reason it is. I do not want you to be my dad. Jules is my dad even though the biology part says something different. I heard Mum and Jules talking about the biology part through the door and I was not supposed to hear it but I did. I do not care about biology. Biology is not the same as being someone's dad. Being someone's dad is making the eggs the right way and putting the blanket on someone when they fall asleep on the sofa and touching Mum's shoulder when you walk past, which you have never done because you have never walked past because you have never lived with us, and that is the actual difference between you and Jules and I do not think you understand it yet.I am sorry about the juice.I am not sorry about the rest of it.