I Was His Wife, She Was His Everything novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: The Plan
I looked at the ring for a long time.
Then I picked it up off the napkin.
He didn't breathe.
I reached under the register for Sallie's shot glass and dropped it in, next to the courthouse ring.
They hit the bottom with two small clicks.
"Ask me after," I said.
He let his breath out.
"Yes, boss."
He drank the bourbon then, all of it, and went to stack the chairs.
The shot glass went back under the register.
Neither of us mentioned it again for two months.
Thanksgiving, the fry cook fried a turkey in the new kitchen and nearly took the new hood off with it.
Sallie stood in the doorway with the extinguisher and didn't say a word.
Lawton carved, one-handed, because his arm still pulled.
The nurses from table four brought pies.
The old shrimper brought his grandson and a can of cranberry sauce he opened with an oyster knife.
In December Lawton hung white lights on every piling down the dock.
It took him three days, and he fell in the creek once.
He came back in dripping in the cold and Sallie handed him a towel and docked him for the swim.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of I Was His Wife, She Was His Everything are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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