Not the Bride He Wanted novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The Ridge House
I looked at him for a long time in the firelight.
"You already married me," I said.
"I know."
"In front of seven packs. I've got the gray wool to prove it."
"I know that too." He didn't smile. "I'm asking anyway."
"Where?"
"On the stone. Before Christmas. Just you and me."
"And Tilde."
"Tilde wasn't on the list."
"Tilde will be on the bluff whether she's on the list or not," I said. "She'll be behind a birch with a thermos."
He laughed, and I felt it go through the mark.
"Is that a yes?"
"It's a yes," I said. "Ask me properly in daylight, and I'll say it again."
He asked me again at breakfast, in front of the housekeeper.
She dropped a whole tray of bacon.
On Saturday I drove to the Ridge House with the window down in the cold.
Magnus rode beside me with his arm out the passenger window.
Tilde rode in the back with a stepladder across her knees.
The house was empty.
Aksel's truck was gone from the lilac bed.
Somebody had taken the wreath off the door and left a pale ring in the paint.
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