Beyond the Spring Breeze novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Yard Crew
The deputy who had been eating crab cakes at the back took our report standing up.
He wrote it on a napkin, because he had no notebook.
He promised to alert the roads, and he left.
By eleven the last guests had gone home, and the lanterns burned alone in the empty yard.
The crew gathered on the long dock without being asked.
Twenty men stood in a half circle with their arms crossed, and the foreman at the front.
My father stood before them.
Roz and her mother had gone home on the last ferry, and no one had stopped them.
He looked as if the party had taken thirty years off the wrong side of him.
"I'll say it once," my father said.
His voice cracked and he started again.
"I kept a second family nineteen years. I lied to you and I lied to my girl. And I signed this yard over to a thief tonight to keep it quiet."
Nobody spoke.
The foreman took a slow breath.
"What was in the folder?" he asked.
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