He Divorced Me at His Ship's Christening, So I Held the Ship novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: The Correction

Ruel's POV

I wrote Noelle one line on Saturday morning, in the truck, with the engine off.

I did not need to look up her number.

I had known it by heart for five years, and three years away had not changed that.

*Don't write me again. I'm with someone.*

I read it twice and checked it for anything I might be hiding behind.

There was nothing in it but the fact.

I sent it, and I put the phone face down on the seat, and I felt lighter at once.

I had been carrying that unanswered text for a month, and I had not known the weight until I set it down.

The Port of San Diego's records office opened at nine.

I was at the counter at five to.

The clerk was a young man with a lanyard and a cold.

He looked at the roll of drawings under my arm with open dread.

"These are the true berth plans for the Tenth Avenue pier," I said. "Surveyed last week, stamped, and signed by me."

"Signed by you as what?"

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