This Heiress Doesn't Fight Anymore novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: Nine Hours
I read the line three times.
"Gran. I can't take this."
"You're not taking it. I'm giving it. There's a difference, and you of all people ought to know it by now."
She tapped her cigarette over the porch rail.
"My husband built boats. I did the books. Seth builds boats. Somebody has to draw them, and it's not going to be Bess."
Gran looked at me over her glasses.
"Sign the thing, honey. Then go to work. It's Sunday, but the old fool's coming to glare at his trophy."
I signed it on the porch step, with Seth's pencil.
The next June thirteenth was a Saturday again.
I woke up at seven in the loft under the new cedar roof, with the window open and the water slapping the pilings.
Nine hours.
Seth was already gone.
He'd left his pencil on the windowsill, which meant he wanted it back.
I put it behind my ear and went down.
The shed doors were open.
On a new cradle at the top of the railway sat the first boat I'd ever drawn that anybody had built.
She was twenty-six feet long, a daysailer, with a fat friendly bow and a low cabin and a mast stepped exactly where I'd put it.
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