The Bride Ran, So I Wore Her Crown and Married the Valley's Don novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: The Bride Who Ran
I let Armen sleep.
He had not slept past four in the morning in six years, and he lay on his side in my mother's bed with his bare hand open on the pillow.
I put the kettle on downstairs and brought Seta in to sit at the little kitchen table behind the shop.
She held the cup in both hands and did not drink.
"You came back from Bakersfield for a hem," I said.
"My mother called me at the motel. She doesn't call me." Seta put the cup down. "She said Papa has a photograph of the Glove's bare hand, and he is taking it to the Trndez fire."
My stomach turned over.
"Who took it?"
"The Kasparians' old driver. Papa kept him on the payroll after he was fired. He's been following your car with a long lens since Christmas." She pushed her curls off her forehead. "He got it on a levee road, my mother says. A hand held up in the fog."
The levee road.
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