The One Who Waited novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Sham
Tamara read the petition on speakerphone at seven in the morning and laughed so hard she started coughing.
"He can't do that."
"It says he did it."
"Merry. You can't annul somebody else's marriage. That's like suing to cancel my haircut."
"Then why did he file it?"
She stopped laughing.
"To make noise before the roadshow. He wants the word sham in the papers next to your name. Hearing's Tuesday. I'll be there."
By Sunday the papers had it.
THE SIX-WEEK BRIDE. Steady founder says ex married carpenter to steal his company.
Luke folded it in half and put it under the table leg that wobbled.
"Finally," he said. "That table's been rocking for a year."
On Monday I opened MERRY'S.
I was up at four. Scones, the right ones this time. Two chocolate olive-oil cakes. Soup for the welder.
At eleven forty-five I wrote the menu on the chalkboard.
At noon the line went out the break room door and down the length of the shop.
The brewery guys. The surfboard man. Two women who made lamps. Stagehands from another shop who'd heard about the oven.
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