I Left Pregnant and Swore She Wasn't His, Now He Wants the Truth novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: Home
We were married on the Saturday before Christmas, under my grandmother's pecan tree, in a cold bright wind.
Mémère had insisted on the yard.
She'd said the church was for people who needed a roof, and we had one already.
By noon the long tables stood in rows on the grass with white paper cloths held down by mason jars.
The whole parish was walking up the shell road with covered dishes.
The women from the mill office came together in a van.
The foreman brought a cooler of boudin and a gray suit that fit him badly.
The Sunday school teacher from the cafe came.
The social worker came, in a plain blue dress, with a praline in her purse that she took out and showed me.
"I've been saving it," she said.
The young deputy came and stood by the fence with a plate and told me he was off duty.
Gabe waited under the tree in a black suit.
He had been up since four, cooking.
His hands had a small burn on the back that he kept turning over.
I watched him from the kitchen window and felt the same thing I had felt on a porch in October.
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