His Cousin Was His Real Wife, So I Took My Father's Name Back novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Clara Hallett
In April the roses on Wren Hill came back, and my father was still there to see them.
He sat on the bench in his gray cardigan with the oxygen cart at his knee, and he complained that the tube was too short.
"You've been complaining about that tube since December," Simon said.
"It has been too short since December."
Brooke's daughter was three weeks old and asleep in a basket under the lilac, wearing a yellow hat.
Brooke herself sat beside the basket with her shoes off, reading a divorce decree she had read five times already.
"It says final," she told me. "It literally says final."
"Frame it."
"I might eat it."
Behind her, the lawyer unfolded a card table in the middle of the lawn and set a leather folder on it.
He was the same lawyer who had once told Simon to wait six weeks.
I did not hold it against him anymore.
"Miss Mackey," he said, and then corrected himself, because my father coughed pointedly.
"Not yet," I said. "That's why you're here."
He opened the folder.
Inside was a single page, with the county seal embossed at the top.
I had spent the winter with the court, in a brown waiting room on Harlow Street, in the same building where a clerk had once swung a screen toward me.
The petition had gone through in four months.
The judge had asked only one question, and I had answered it in front of a dozen strangers.
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