100% Compatibility novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Courthouse
The silver letter slipped out of his fingers and rang on the marble.
"Yes," said Ronan.
"I haven't finished the question."
"I know the end of it," he said.
"I've been reading you for weeks."
"You can't read me."
"I can read your exits," he said, "and you haven't taken one."
I kissed him in the empty lobby, under the bare wall where the slogan had been.
That was Monday.
On Thursday we stood in the corridor of the Suffolk County courthouse at ten in the morning.
I had a ticket number in my hand and a dress I had worn once before.
It was the green one from the gala.
Maeve had insisted.
"It's got history," she said.
"Now it gets a better ending."
She wore her dress uniform, with the ribbons, and stood next to me with her chin up.
Biscuit sat in her carrier on the bench, and a bailiff had decided not to see her.
The retired bus driver stood against the wall in a tie, with the nurse beside him in his church suit.
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