True Heiress vs. Fake Queen Bee novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Real Friends
"I can't," I said.
Brodie's face fell so fast I almost laughed.
"Not like that," I said. "Trudy has a clinical shift at six on Friday. And half the Lake Road girls can't afford the bus home."
"So bring your family here. To the duplex. We'll feed everybody."
He thought about it.
"My dad's going to make the speech anyway."
"I'm counting on it."
Thanksgiving was the coldest day of the year so far.
By noon our downstairs apartment held fourteen people and two tables pushed together, one of them Brodie's, carried down the outside stairs.
His father had driven the turkey from Pittsburgh in a cooler on the passenger seat, seat-belted in.
He was a big quiet man with a mill jacket and hands like Brodie's, only older.
He shook my hand once and said, "So you're the one who got him his boat back."
"Allegedly."
"Dark meat or white?" Brodie's mother asked me, very seriously, holding both my hands.
"Dark. Always."
"He wouldn't tell me. He said, 'Ma, she's a Haldane, I don't know what they eat.'"
"Cereal out of the box," Trudy said from the stove. "Mostly."
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