Married to My Ex-Father-in-Law novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: The Sunday Table
I read the last line out loud to him.
He lay back on my pillow and looked at the ceiling.
He didn't say anything for a long time.
Then he started to laugh, so hard the old bed springs complained.
"What?" I said. "Dom. What?"
"Four months," he said. "I've been practicing what I'd say in that courtroom for four months."
"In the shower. At the stall. To the eggplant."
"Practice it on me."
"No." He took his hand off his eyes. "I'm going to make eggs."
He got up and went into my little kitchen in his undershirt.
He burned them.
He stood at my stove holding the pan at arm's length while my smoke alarm went off.
He looked over his shoulder at me in the doorway.
"Your stove," he said, "is very aggressive."
We ate toast.
A year after I laid those papers on Nicky's plate, I woke up to the smell of gravy.
Neck bones. Browned until they were ugly.
The clinic had four chairs now.
The fourth one was in the old garage out back, where my father's snowblower used to sit next to a red gas can.
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