He Was Reborn to Claim Me, But I'm Already Married novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Still Alive
Leighton came down off the lawn and stood next to my sister on the gravel.
Behind him the picnic had stopped.
A hundred people in white and navy stood holding paper plates, and nobody ate.
The trustee with the silver mustache stepped up beside Jocelyn, and his wife took her other arm.
"Young lady," he said, loudly enough for the tent, "I am told there's a problem with your car."
"Three vans," said Jocelyn.
"Whose vans?"
Out by the road, the catering drivers had stopped pretending to be on their break.
One of them, a heavy man in a white apron, took off his cap.
"Mrs. Prescott's assistant told us to park there, sir," he said. "She said nobody was to leave before the fireworks."
It went through the crowd.
Cornelia came across the lawn with her hat in one hand.
"This is a misunderstanding," she said. "A scheduling error."
"Mrs. Prescott," said the trustee, "move the vans."
"I beg your pardon?"
"You boxed in a guest at a Foundation event. I am a trustee of that Foundation." He did not raise his voice. "Move them, or I will move them, and I'll do it in front of that man with the camera."
Cornelia looked at the photographer she had hired.
He lowered the camera by an inch and did not look at her.
"Move the vans," she said to the drivers.
They ran.
Engines started, and the three white vans backed out of the lawn one at a time.
The gray hatchback sat in the cleared space, small and dusty and alone.
The grandmother, in her folding chair under the porch light, held out a flat white box tied with string.
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