My Tribal Rule Said Marry Or Matchmake novel · Chapter 30 of 32

Chapter 30: The Arbor

"He wouldn't," I said.

"No, honey," his mama said. "He wouldn't."

But neither of us hung up right away.

Sheree was sitting at Granny's kitchen table with her feet on a second chair, painting her toenails red for the wedding.

She looked up at my face.

"Keys are on the hook," she said. "Don't hit a bear."

***

Sheree's car had no hubcaps left, and the headlights pointed slightly at the ditch.

I drove it up the river road anyway.

I tried the fire hall first. The bay doors were down and the trucks were dark.

I tried the top of the ridge, where we'd parked the truck that night.

Nothing there but stars and the wind in the white oaks.

I didn't think he'd run.

I'd lived with a man who ran for eight years. This one didn't have it in him.

But I'd also been sure about a navy velvet box once.

Coming back down the ridge road, I saw it.

A light in the Easterly sawmill.

Just one, in the long open shed by the creek, where the big saw lived.

His truck was parked around the back, behind the stacks of drying lumber, where nobody would see it from the road.

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