His New Stepsister. His Biggest Threat. novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: Final Answer
The room had figured it out before I had.
Sixteen tables went quiet, one at a time.
Marva was standing by the jukebox switch with her arms folded.
"Read it, honey," she said.
I looked down at the card.
My hands were shaking worse than they had in game 42.
"Final question," I read into the microphone. "This is a Last Word. Closest answer wins. Nothing kept back."
I swallowed.
"This bartender owns the bar you're sitting in. Her answer is due in thirty seconds."
Somebody at the nurses' table made a small, high sound.
"The question is," I read, and had to stop.
The room waited.
The room went quiet.
"The question is: will she marry me?"
I looked up.
Gannon came down the length of the bar.
Not fast.
The way he walks across a deck in weather, sure of every step.
He stopped in front of the microphone stand.
He took something out of his shirt pocket.
A ring. A small old diamond on a thin gold band.
"It was my mother's," he said, quietly, not into the mic, but the room heard it anyway. "She did crosswords in pen. She'd have liked you a great deal. She'd have hated losing to you."
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