He Paid a Million for One Night, and the Contract Was Signed by My Mother novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Dock
Theodora's lawyer was a dry man in a brown suit who had been drawing up Verlander papers for forty years.
On Friday night, in the front parlor, he read clause nine aloud to the three of us.
The company passed to the oldest blood Verlander of age, ahead of any adopted heir, if that Verlander came forward.
Theodora said, "Come forward on Saturday, child. At the dock."
I said I would think about it.
I thought about it all night.
On Saturday morning I put on the plain black dress, pinned my hair, and carried my machine to the car.
Soren drove.
He did not ask me anything, and his thumb moved slowly over the back of my hand where it lay on the seat.
The river had come up in the night.
It lay brown and enormous under the Convent landing, a mile across and moving fast, the willows on the far bank standing in it to their knees.
The dock was packed.
Forty captains had been told to come, and every one of them had brought a wife, and half had brought a grown son.
The deputy stood at the rail again, with a second deputy beside him and the parish sheriff himself, a gray, heavy man in a pressed uniform who took off his hat to Theodora.
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