Divorced After One Night: The Plus-Size Ex-Wife’s Revenge のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 161 - チャプター 166

Daxton barely slept on Tuesday or Wednesday night. I heard him get up at three both mornings and sit by the window with the lights off, I didn't ask. When he wanted to talk, he would.On Thursday at ten, he sat beside me on the hotel couch, his hands folded between his knees. Marcus sat in the chair across from us. Dana had taken Rowan to the aquarium, she'd promised him sharks.Jason knocked at 9:58.Marcus let him in. He wore a dark suit without a tie, his collar open, like a man who had put one on and then taken it off again. He carried a thin folder, he didn't sit until Marcus nodded toward the armchair."Thank you for letting me come," he said."Marcus said you wanted to show us something."He opened the folder and placed the papers on the coffee table. Acknowledgment of Paternity. His name was neatly typed on a line that had never been signed."My mother's lawyer drew this up. I took it off her desk on Saturday." He picked up the top page and tore it in half, then he tore it in

The driver cleared his throat. "Folks? Light's green.""Hotel," Daxton said.That was all he said until we got into the elevator.In the room he stood in the middle of the carpet, not sitting, not taking off his jacket."I'm going," he said."Okay.""Not alone. I want Marcus there. I want her lawyer there. I want you.""Why me?""any time I picture walking into that house, I see my mom pushing a mop across a floor at two in the morning, and I can't breathe." He rubbed his face. "Then I picture you next to me, and I can."I took his hand. It was shaking a little. "I'll be there."Marcus set it up for Friday at two. Dana came over to stay with Rowan, who was building a shark out of pillows and wanted to know if sharks had to go to meetings too.The gate guard waved our car through without calling ahead this time. I noticed that. So did Daxton.A man in a gray suit met us at the front door and introduced himself as Theodore Marsh, the family's lawyer. He shook Marcus's hand, then Daxton'

My hand went to my collar before I could stop it, the moon was warm from my skin."Why?" I said."Please," Jason said. "Just tell me where you got it."He wasn't asking the way he had when he questioned me about Rowan. This time, his voice was quiet and hesitant, almost fearful, as though he was afraid of what my answer might be. Daxton had released both of us and was now silently watching our exchange."I found it," I said slowly. "A long time ago. Before I ever met you.""Where?""On a road outside the city. It was storming. A car was upside down in a ditch, and there was a man inside. I pulled him out."The room went completely quiet. Marcus had stopped writing."What did the car look like?" Jason's voice had dropped almost to nothing."Dark. Low. I couldn't tell the make. The rain was too heavy.""Can I see the clasp?"I lifted the chain over my head and put it in his hand. He didn't look at the moon, he turned the clasp over and ran his thumb along the last two links."This link