My Brother Bet I'd Be Dead by Spring, So I Made My Ruin the Strongest March in the Realm novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: The Hill Road
"Yes," I said.
I said it before the market had finished going quiet, so half of them didn't hear it.
"She said yes!" Enora shouted from the wool shed, and then they all heard it.
The noise went up off the landing and across the river and came back off the far hill.
Erwan picked me up off the ground in front of everyone, which I had not agreed to.
I let him.
We were married at Penhal's gate eleven days later, on the last warm day of the autumn.
The gate had doors again.
They were oak, hung on new iron, from beams the hill farmers had carried down from the high woods.
Erwan's men had hung them.
They stood open that morning, both of them, folded back against the old stone.
Above them, the stone beam with the rope marks was hung with green branches.
Nobody had said to do that.
Somebody had done it in the night, and nobody would own up.
The whole of Penhal stood in the yard and out through the gate onto the road.
Enora had counted them that morning, because she couldn't help it.
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