The Hidden Heiress: Married to My Ex's Brother novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: Starboard Side
HENRIETTA.
White on navy. Three feet high. Right across the bow.
Not Conway. Not Lane. Not Beckford.
Just the name I'd hidden for five years, the one I'd told him nobody liked.
I stood on the old repair dock with the rope still in my hand.
"You said nobody likes it," Rem said behind me.
"Nobody does."
"I like it." He came up beside me. "Four hundred people heard me say I do. Now the whole bay can read it."
The deckhand kid couldn't hold it in anymore.
"Captain! She's got a galley with a real stove! And a heater in the wheelhouse that works!"
"Both of them work," the old engineer said. "I checked twice. Your husband can't cook, but he can wire."
I walked up her gangway in my wedding-night sweater with my hair in a knot.
New deck plates. New rails. The smell of fresh paint and cold salt.
Rem had saved the old brass bell from the boat she'd been up north and hung it by the wheelhouse door.
I rang it once.
The sound went out across the empty Sunday harbor.
On the dock, the old engineer took off his cap.
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