Stepdad and His Friends Bred Me During the Birthday Blackout novel · Chapter 47 of 48
Chapter 47: The Third Floor
On the first Friday of December the brass plate by the Third Floor door had a second line.
The engraver had come on Thursday and done it by hand.
WHATEVER SHE SAYS.
And hers is ours.
Breck read it twice with his mouth open, and then he had to go and stand in the stairwell.
Downstairs, the dining room was loud.
Members' night had filled every table, and the cook had cooked for twice the number.
Duane had pleaded guilty the week before Thanksgiving, Rand told the bar, and the judge had given him nine years.
"He asked me to tell you he hopes the truck is holding up," Rand said.
"Tell him it's green."
"I'm not his messenger."
The county attorney had opened a file on the report. The supervisor had resigned by email on a Sunday.
Dorothea had resigned too, from the children's court board she'd served on for more than thirty years.
Rand said the two-line letter had been typed on good paper.
She hadn't written to Abram.
He hadn't asked.
The building stayed. The Crandall family foundation had withdrawn its offer in a letter signed by someone else.
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