This Heiress Doesn't Fight Anymore novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: A Real Date
I sat down on the sawdust floor with the slip in both hands.
I didn't remember it.
I'd done a hundred of those, that first summer.
Fixes on the backs of parts slips, for men who came in late and didn't look at me twice.
"He kept it," I said.
"Nine years." Seth sat down next to me. "He used to take it down and show people. Every Christmas, after the second rum."
"He said the best eye he ever saw on a rig belonged to a kid who wouldn't look up from her homework."
"He tried to go back and thank you. Twice. They said you'd moved upstairs."
I pressed the slip flat against my knee.
My hands were shaking again, and this time I let them.
Seth didn't say anything clever.
He put his arm around me, and we sat on the shed floor until the skylights went gray.
On Monday Wakefield Marine's board met for nine hours.
Nobody called the yard.
Bess read every article out loud at breakfast anyway.
"'Wakefield heiress warned of fault weeks before launch, email shows.' Charlie, that's you. You're the heiress."
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