Traded for Nine Boats, I Walked In Pregnant and Ran Their House novel · Chapter 12 of 24
Chapter 12: The Envelope
On Christmas Day there were fourteen of us at Marigo's long table.
The only sound was a cousin's fork against his plate.
I sat in the green velvet dress, with Alex at my left.
Marigo sat at the head in black, with the keys at her belt.
Thanos sat at her right hand, smiling, in a navy suit with a white carnation.
The family lawyer, a thin gray man, stood by the sideboard with a gray envelope in his hands.
It had red tape across the flap, and my signature and Alex's across the tape.
He had brought it that morning, as I had asked, with the seal whole.
He laid it on the white cloth beside my plate.
"As instructed," he said.
Nobody ate.
Thanos wiped his mouth, set down his napkin and stood.
"Before my mother opens a paper," he said, "I would like the family to hear one thing.
"I have kept it for eleven years out of love.
"I will not keep it a minute longer for a woman who walked in off a fuel dock."
"Thanos," Marigo said.
"Mama, let me speak."
He turned to the table.
"Eleven years ago my nephew was twenty-four.
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