My Tribal Rule Said Marry Or Matchmake novel · Chapter 22 of 32
Chapter 22: Harvest Meeting
"Who signed?" I asked.
Jeb looked out over the hollow, where the light was coming up gray over the mill.
"The barn family. The kittens."
That one hurt him. I saw it.
"Two more down the river road. And two I'd have bet my truck on."
"Did Granddad say what Bentley paid them?"
"Twenty-five thousand a family," he said. "He went up."
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By six o'clock Tuesday, the community hall was so full they'd propped the doors open.
The white lights from the pie supper were still strung across the rafters.
Somebody had set out coffee. Nobody was drinking it.
Thirteen families sat in thirteen rows of folding chairs, and their kids sat on the floor along the walls.
The old crew from the Tilden mill stood together in the back in their feed caps.
Breanne's mama sat at a card table on the little stage with a gavel and the minutes book.
The elder sat in the front row on his cane, in his tie.
Granny sat beside him in a borrowed wheelchair with an oxygen line and her knitting.
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