Lethal Vows：Married to My Rival novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Vote
The family hall smelled of cold stone and old tobacco.
A round table stood in the middle of the floor, with a dozen carved chairs for the dock bosses who ran Port Calder's water.
Forty men lined the walls. Half wore the uncle's gray ribbon pinned inside the collar.
The uncle sat at the head of the table in his cardigan, with his hands folded and his son at his shoulder.
He looked up as we came in, and he smiled.
"Valentin," he said warmly. "You came. I wasn't sure you'd be well enough."
I walked Valentin down the length of the hall on my arm, slowly.
His boots hit the stone one at a time.
Nobody spoke. Forty men watched the head of their house cross the floor on legs the poison had been eating for a year.
He reached his chair and sat, and I stood behind it with my hand on his shoulder.
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