Beyond the Spring Breeze novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Whose Daughter
For a moment nobody breathed.
Roz stood with the cup of punch frozen halfway to her mouth, and her lips moved without making a sound.
"Go on," I said into the microphone. "It's a simple question."
"I don't know what you mean," Roz whispered.
Her whisper carried to the back.
Dean got to his feet. "Thea, you're upset. Let's talk about this inside."
"We're talking out here."
"Eldon," Dean said sharply.
My father had not moved.
He stood beside the folded folder with his hands hanging.
"Roz," I said, gently, "he's your father too."
A murmur went through the crowd.
It rose and broke.
"What did she say?"
"Eldon's girl?"
From the gate, beyond the lanterns, a woman's voice said, "It's true."
Heads turned.
A slim woman in a navy dress stepped out of the darkness at the edge of the light.
She was forty-four, with pinned-up fair hair and Roz's blue eyes, and she held her purse in front of her with both hands.
Ellis stood a pace behind her, with his cap in his fist.
"Mama," Roz said.
"Rosie." Her mother walked straight through the crowd, and the crowd opened for her, whispering. "I've waited nineteen years to stand in this yard."
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