The Phoenix's Rebirth for Revenge novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: Father
I typed back:
"Why?"
The dots came and went three times.
"Because she wrote it in April," Sabine answered. "Because I'd have gone down for her and said thank you."
Then nothing else, all week.
On Wednesday evening I asked my father to meet me at the boat shed.
He came straight from the office in his blazer, and he found me where I knew he'd look first.
At the end of the old shed, beside the half-built mahogany hull from the centennial.
The lights were off except for one work lamp clamped to the cradle.
The shed smelled of varnish and salt and cut wood, the way it had every Sunday of my childhood.
"Your mother doesn't know I'm here," he said.
"Good."
He put his hand on the hull, flat.
"You wanted to talk."
"Gran was poisoned again last Thursday," I said. "At lunch. In front of you."
His hand didn't move.
"I ate that soup," he said. "We all ate it."
"From the tureen. Her bowl was already on the table when we sat down."
He looked at me then.
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