My Husband Buried Me in Gossip, So I Came Back With His Brother novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: Ask Me Again

"She was," Dale said to his brother in the parking lot. "That's why you lost."

I stood at the crack of the door and heard it in the cold.

Todd looked at him for a long moment.

Then he got into the blue truck and drove out of the fairgrounds, and the taillights turned toward the highway.

That was the last I saw of the Silverado that winter.

The following Saturday, a flatbed truck backed into my driveway with a table on it.

It was oak, nine feet long, with a plank top planed so smooth that I could see the window in it.

The legs had been turned on a lathe, each one slightly different, because they had been turned by fifteen-year-olds.

"The shop class," Dale said, climbing down from the cab with a wrench in his back pocket. "They finished it Friday."

"Dale."

"It seats ten. We figured you'd need ten."

I put my hand on the wood and could not say anything at all.

My son and four of his teammates carried it into the kitchen.

They did it with shouting, and elbows, and a near disaster at the doorframe.

My daughter directed from a chair.

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