The Night He Left the Syndicate, I Took His Chair novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: The Vote
"You're not going," Mavis said.
"I'm going."
"Honey, you just said it yourself. After he lost his chair."
"If I don't walk in on Friday, I've lost it anyway."
Zeke had his phone in his hand.
"Let me call it in," he said. "Tonight. She bought the cans. They'll pick her up by morning."
"And Hesketh hears about it from a trooper," I said. "He'll think I traded his Table for my own skin. Same as Orson."
"Ris."
"He has to see it on his own wood. With his own eyes. In front of the three of them."
He put the phone face down on the counter.
He didn't like it.
He didn't lie and say he did.
On Wednesday morning I walked down the Lower Wharf in my father's sweater.
Nobody opened a curtain this time. They just watched through them.
The co-op president was on the scorched deck of the Petrel, sanding the rail.
He didn't stop when he saw me.
"Miss Rendell."
"Can I come aboard?"
He thought about it a long time.
Then he jerked his chin.
I climbed over the gunwale and held out the pink slip.
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