A Ruler in Disguise novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Dawn Eviction
At a quarter to six on Sunday morning, two sheriff's cruisers and a white locksmith's van parked in front of my shop.
I was already standing on the step.
I had been there since five, in my green apron, with a folder in my hands.
Behind me the shop was lit and full of flowers.
Dina had refused to go home.
The old notary sat in a chair by the register with a blanket on her knees and a cup of tea.
She would not be moved either.
The street was not empty.
At five fifteen the buses had come, plain white and unmarked.
Three hundred men and women in work clothes had climbed down and lined up along the opposite curb in rows.
They stood at ease with their hands behind them.
They did not speak, and they did not step off the sidewalk.
The colonel stood at the head of the first row.
I had asked her for exactly that.
"You stand," I had said last night, across the workbench.
"You do not touch anyone, you do not block the door, you do not say a word.
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