Marriage Offered, Love Declined novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Joe's Question
Sebastian spent breakfast trying to lie to me about the text.
He was a terrible liar, and he had never once considered getting better at it.
"I'm supposed to say I'm working late," he said.
"Are you working late?"
"I'm going to a garage with gloves."
"Then I'm working late too."
My father's garage sat down a gravel alley behind the house.
It had a roll door that stuck and a bare bulb on a cord.
My mother's old Buick lived in it, under a tarp, and had not moved in four years.
My father could not make himself sell it.
I got there at six, after the clinic, with a foil pan of lasagna as my excuse.
The roll door was up a foot.
Light spilled out along the gravel, and with it the clink of a socket wrench and two men not talking.
I stopped at the gap and stood very still.
It isn't eavesdropping when the door is open, I told myself.
It was eavesdropping.
"Hold the light," said my father.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Marriage Offered, Love Declined are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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