My Best Friend Took My Wedding, So I Fed the Whole Town novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: On the Rails
The county attorney set the sale aside in January, and Torvald Lindholm handed me the shop keys himself.
He did it on the steps of Town Hall in a cold wind, because the schoolteacher with the red hat had insisted on a witness.
Two hundred people came to watch.
He held the ring out between two fingers.
"The Estate's lot," he said, "is returned."
He had resigned as mayor on Tuesday.
His face was the color of paper.
I took the keys.
They were my father's, with the brass tag he had cut himself, and my hand closed on them without any help from me.
"Thank you," I said.
"I hope you're satisfied."
"I'm not," I said. "I'm only getting it back."
He walked down the steps alone, and nobody parted for him, and nobody blocked him either.
That was the end of him.
In April, Brynja's daughter was born on a Tuesday at the hospital in Grand Marais.
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