He Stood Me Up, so I Married His Brother novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Accountability
I didn't answer him.
I looked at him for a long time, at the orange light in his beard and the worry in his eyes.
"Not up here," I said.
His face fell, just a little.
"That's not a no," I said. "It's a roof at sunset. Anybody would say yes on a roof at sunset."
"So where?"
"Give me till Friday. I want to say it with my feet on the ground."
He breathed out and laughed at himself.
"Friday," he said. "I've waited at worse counters."
Friday morning the old lawyer called me from over his bakery.
"Ashwood's new board dropped the suit at nine," he said. "With apologies. In writing."
"Do I have to do anything?"
"Keep the can. I'd frame it."
At two that afternoon, a little white car pulled into my shop lot.
It wasn't Ivey's. Hers was gone. This one had a rental sticker on the bumper.
She got out in jeans and a plain gray sweater. No lashes. Her hair pulled back in a rubber band.
The crew stopped working.
She walked into the middle of the shop and stood in the exact spot where Crosby had stood with his roses.
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