He Kissed My Sister on the Day I Was Forced to Wed novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Lakeside Club
Roan read the email over my shoulder in the dark.
"Five days," he said. "She's had that woman's ear for five days."
"And I've had a notebook, a receipt and a boy who confessed on a quay."
"So we don't wait."
"We don't wait," I said. "We go to her dinner, and we bring every one of them."
On Saturday the Port Alder Lakeside Club had its chandeliers lit and its brass polished.
Sixty people in evening clothes stood in the ballroom with drinks, under a banner with the Hartwell crest.
Judges and bankers and the pastor of the big church.
Women who ran the library board, in good pearls.
I came through the double doors in the green dress, with the notebook in both hands.
My mother's hummingbird lay at my throat.
My father walked beside me in his old suit.
He had asked to come, in the car, in a small voice, and I had said yes.
The four walked behind us in black suits with every shirt buttoned to the top.
"Under protest," Nash murmured.
"You say that every time."
"It's true every time."
The room noticed us in a wave.
The conversation dipped and came back lower.
At the head table, under the crest, sat a woman of about fifty-five.
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