He Called My Inheritance a Forgery in Front of Three Hundred Guests, Then Took Every Blow Meant for Me novel · Chapter 34 of 40
Chapter 34: Rockport
The doors swung shut behind him.
The candles near them leaned and stood up again.
I put the microphone back on its stand.
"Please," I said to the room. "Eat. Chloe made the mushrooms by hand."
A few people laughed.
I walked down off the stage and straight through the kitchen and out onto the loading dock, in my black dress, in the snow.
I called the detective.
"Rockport, Maine," I said. "A diner on the harbor. Leonard says his driver's already there."
She was quiet for one second.
"I'll call Maine," she said. "Stay where you are."
"No," I said.
I called Kendrick.
Voicemail.
I called again.
Voicemail.
Chloe came out onto the dock behind me with my coat.
She didn't ask.
She held it open, and I put my arms in it.
"Your car won't make it to Maine," she said.
"I know."
She put her keys in my hand.
It was four hours in good weather.
It was six and a half that night.
The snow came at the windshield.
The plows were out on 95, orange lights turning in the dark.
I passed Portsmouth at midnight and Portland at two.
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