My Father Went to Prison for Their Money, So I Married Their Heir novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: Slack Water
On the night of the thirteenth of October, two days after the hearing, Beau took the Second Wind out again.
He told me he wanted to see the marsh once more before the vote.
He did not say what we both knew, that it might be our last night on the boat.
We anchored in the lee of the same sandbar, with the same heron standing on the same bank.
The tide was at the turn.
The water lay flat, and not one ripple moved between us and the stars.
"Slack water," Beau said. "It does this for twenty minutes. Nothing goes in, nothing goes out."
"It's quiet."
"My grandfather used to say it was the only honest time on the river."
I sat in the cockpit with a glass of Opal's bourbon between my knees.
I watched him coil a line he did not need to coil.
I had thought a lot about the thing I wanted to say.
I had said so many things in rooms with other people watching, and none of them had been this.
"Beau."
"Yes," he said.
"Why did you stand up at the gala?"
Beau stopped with the rope in his hands.
"I told you," he said. "I needed a wife."
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