The DNA Matched My Cousin, Not Me, So They Kept Me Anyway novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: Thanksgiving, Avon

There were two camera crews at the gate in Avon, and a state trooper had been sent to stand between them.

Conor drove through slowly, and I kept my face forward.

The Harrowgate dining table had been opened to its full length, and the long cloth ran from the windows to the sideboard.

Forty places.

Eleven directors of Harrowgate Mutual sat with their wives in dark suits and pearls, and cutlery rattled against the china.

Constance met me in the hall.

She held a place card between two fingers, the one I had found on my back step, with its cream crest and its black ink.

"It was in the setting at the pantry door," she said. "Somebody put it there before I came down."

"I know who."

"I'm going to tear it in half," she said.

"Please do."

She tore it, and then she tore the halves, and she dropped them into a vase of chrysanthemums.

"You'll sit with me," she said. "Not in the kitchen. Not anywhere you can't see me."

"I'll sit at the end," I said. "By Conor. I'd like to see the whole table."

She looked at me for a moment.

Then she squeezed my hand and went in without a word.

I took the chair at the foot, beside Conor.

Sabina sat halfway up on Donald's left, in a green velvet dress, with a pill case in her lap and her face carefully pleasant.

Donald sat at the head in a dark suit, thinner than the suit, with his brother at his right hand.

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