The Hidden Heiress: Married to My Ex's Brother novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: Head Table
The silver car pulled away from the curb.
Rem watched it all the way to the corner.
"She's right," he said. "I resigned. If my father names anyone in the family, it's Lance."
"Do you want it back?"
"No." He didn't even pause. "I said now or ever. I meant it."
"Then we don't need you in the chair," I said. "We need your brother out of the running."
I touched my bag. Liza's envelope was in it. I'd carried it everywhere for a week.
"Six weeks," Rem said.
"Six weeks."
They went faster than any six weeks of my life.
Rem fixed the six bad pilings at cost. He invoiced Conway Ferries for four hundred dollars and a crab.
I moved my winter coats from Ballard to Queen Anne. Then my books. Then my coffee maker, because his was a crime.
Walter came to Sunday dinner on our side of the water and told Rem his porch was crooked. Rem said it was original. Walter said so was Walter.
Dina wrote nothing at all, which nearly killed her.
On the Saturday of the wedding, at nine in the morning, I walked into the Beckford boardroom wearing my mother's pearls.
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