She Raised Us on Our Dead Parents' Settlement, So We Crashed Her Gala novel · Chapter 40 of 40
Chapter 40: Hope Harbor
"Ask," I said.
Stefan held out the key on his open palm.
"It's the house on Dock Road," he said. "Mine. It has two bedrooms and a good furnace and a porch that needs paint. I'd like to ask whether you'd ever want to see it."
"See it?"
"Live in it. Or not live in it, and see it. I'm asking in front of your sisters so that nobody can say I decided for you."
Cass, behind me, whispered loudly to Sabina, "He's doing it right."
"Shh."
"I'm only saying it's working."
I took the key.
It was warm from his hand.
"Come to Sunday dinner," I said. "At the boat house. All fourteen. Bring a dish. Then I'll answer."
"That's a long time to wait."
"You waited eleven years, Gorski. You can do three days."
He laughed, helpless, in the doorway, and snow fell off his shoulders onto the mat.
On Sunday the boat house smelled like onions and butter.
Sabina had been in the kitchenette since noon, frying pierogi in two cast-iron pans, with an apron over her good blue dress and flour on her glasses.
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