This Heiress Doesn't Fight Anymore novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: The Library Paper
I read it standing in the forward hatch, with my hair in my face.
Seth came up beside me in his jeans and read it over my shoulder.
"My sister had access to every design in our archive for two years," Arabella was quoted. "That boat came out of our files. I recognized her the moment I saw her."
"Wakefield Marine will be seeking the return of its property."
"She's never seen the inside of the drafting room," he said. "She couldn't find it with a map."
"Granddad drew every line of that boat at our kitchen table."
"I know, Seth."
"What do you want to do?"
I looked down the cove at the shed, with the napkin on the wall and the parts slip in my pocket.
"Nothing yet," I said. "Somebody's going to come and ask."
Somebody came at four that afternoon.
My mother walked down the gravel in flat shoes, carrying a cardboard box in both arms.
She'd never been to the yard.
Gran came out on the porch.
"Mrs. Wakefield," she said.
"Mrs. Tisdale."
They looked at each other for a while.
"There's coffee," Gran said finally.
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