Fated to My Cruel CEO novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Matching Halves
The new library at Greer House opened on the first Saturday in June, at ten in the morning.
The plant's maintenance crew had built it on weekends, board by board, on the old concrete slab.
It had white walls, long windows, and a front door the color of a lemon.
The woman with the gray braid had painted that door herself.
"Yellow," she said, when I asked. "You said yellow. I didn't forget."
Inside, past the children's shelves and the reading nook with its beanbags, a frame hung on the wall beside the desk.
In the frame, the two halves of a library card lay side by side, mended with a strip of clear tape.
GREER HOUSE LIBRARY, across the top, with its faded blue stripe.
Under it, a small brass plate said:
*For the thirty-one. Whoever gets out first comes back.*
The little one stood in front of it for a long time in a borrowed suit.
He did not say anything.
Then he put his hand on the glass, once, and nodded.
The matron was there too.
She sat in the first row of folding chairs with her mended hands in her lap.
The eleventh operation had been in March.
She could hold a spoon.
She cut the ribbon with a pair of children's scissors, because she wanted to.
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