Mom Married the Don for Peace, So I Made His Son Kneel novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Blessing
The Blessing of the Fleet came on the first Sunday of July, with a hot blue sky and the harbor flat and bright.
Every boat in Galilee stood dressed in flags along the pier, bow to stern, forty of them.
The Estrela lay at the end with a wreath of white carnations on her bow.
The priest stood on the loading platform in a white cope, with the whole fleet in front of him.
Both families stood together.
My mother wore her black silk and the gold fish pin.
Fortunato stood beside her with his hat in both hands.
Riccardo stood on my left in a navy suit, and I wore the green dress, and my father's ring lay outside it on its chain.
The captains stood in a long row along the edge of the pier with their caps off for the dead.
The priest read the names of the drowned.
He read Vítor Rebelo last.
I looked at the water and did not cry.
Riccardo's hand found mine, and I held it.
When the prayer ended, a man stepped out of the row of captains and onto the planks in front of us.
He wore a clean wool cap and a gray beard, and he put his cap on his heart.
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