The Lost Quarterback Returns novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Rehearsal
Griffin got up from the booth without a word and walked out of the diner.
I found him in the parking lot, standing beside the truck with both fists pressed against the roof.
"She bought a man's silence with a cabin," he said, to the metal.
"Yes."
"My mother."
"Yes."
"I used to think she was only scared." He turned. His eyes were red. "She wasn't scared, Alana. She did the math."
I didn't touch him.
I said, "Tomorrow you read the speech."
"Not hers."
"Then what?"
"The truth," said my husband, and got into the truck.
The Meridian had rebuilt everything above the ballroom after the fire.
Where the nursery had been, there was now a conference suite with a carpet the color of oatmeal.
The ballroom itself was almost the same: chandeliers, a stage at one end, round tables with white cloths, a giant screen against the back wall.
On the afternoon before the gala, the staff was letting the speakers walk the stage.
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