Locked Out of Gran's Secret Room, I Wore What Was Inside novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Tide Door
"Yes," I said, before he had finished asking.
He laughed, kneeling in the wet grass, and held out the cord with the two discs.
I kissed each one, his number and mine, and hung the cord back around his neck.
"Keep them where I know they are," I said.
"No ring," he said.
"Not yet."
"I'll find one."
"You'll find one that's honest," I said. "Get up. You'll catch cold."
He got up.
I kissed him in front of the whole gray bay and the last burning lantern.
In November, Windward opened its doors.
The bookcase in the library stood open from morning until night, and the stair beneath it was swept and lit.
My aunt had gone to a flat in Providence.
She was said to be telling people the emeralds had been an error of accounting.
Crispin's firm had let him go, and the Corliss Hotel Group had found other cliffs.
Bea had kept the ring.
I never asked what she did with it.
At the low tide on the first Saturday, the drivers' children came through the iron sea door with lanterns.
They came in a line, shrieking, with their boots full of water.
The big man with the gray ponytail stood on the ledge counting heads.
I had asked him to leave the door open at every low water, for as long as the sea was willing.
Inside the Lantern Room we laid a long table, and covered it with Vovo's best cloth.
There were sixty places.
The seamstress sat beside the commodore.
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