They Chose the Daughter I Found, So I Called In Their Loans novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: A Name to Call
On Christmas Eve my kitchen on Lantern Row held seven people and a turkey that was not going to be done on time.
Gabriel had sworn he could make the soda bread.
"It's black," Gran said, holding it up.
"It's rustic," Gabriel said.
"It's charcoal, Gabriel Francis. They'll find it in two thousand years."
"You said you'd be nice," he said.
"I said I'd be honest. I'm too old for nice." She put the loaf down and patted his cheek. "It's very good charcoal."
My assistant was carving at the counter with a long knife, in her good red sweater, and she pointed it at Gran without looking.
"You two are going to ruin my gravy."
"Whose gravy?" said our old housekeeper, from the stove, in a voice that settled it.
Clary was setting the table with plates that did not match.
She had moved into my spare room twelve days ago with the duffel and the suitcase.
She had brought nothing else, and the room already looked lived in.
There were socks on the radiator.
There was a mug on the sill with a toothbrush in it.
She'd stopped hiding her chipped tooth when she laughed.
Ulysses sat in the armchair by the fire with his cane across his knees.
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