The Hacker Heiress Strikes Back novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: The Heiress
The next day, a hundred and ten folding chairs stood in Maybelle's backyard in the cold.
Brass heaters glowed along the fence, and strings of lights hung from the clothesline to the tomato cages, bare now for winter.
Forty night nurses sat in the rows in their good coats, still yawning.
Raylan's grandmother sat on the aisle with a pound cake in her lap, because she did not trust anyone else to carry it.
Thirty-one engineers from Whitfield Security filled the back, in suits that had not been out since the last funeral.
A man in a gray bank blazer sat in the last row in a rented tie, looking trapped.
Maybelle had invited him herself.
"He gets cake," she'd told me. "A man who delivers bad news in a good suit has earned a piece of cake."
At the end of the aisle stood Raylan in a charcoal suit with no tie.
He wore his rimless glasses and his father's gold watch.
He was shaking.
I could see it from the porch steps.
The door of the bungalow opened behind me, and my mother came out in her wine-colored dress.
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