They Ran Me Dry in the Desert, So We Came Back for the Whole Rim novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: Not Owed
My father was sitting in the front booth of the Payson café at seven in the morning on the Fourth of July.
He had driven three hours in the dark with my aunt and my cousin to be there.
He had a cup of coffee in front of him, and he was looking directly at me through the window.
I had walked across the street from the feed store with my braid redone and my shirt buttoned wrong.
My aunt saw the shirt first, and she put a hand over her mouth.
"Not one word," I said, as I slid into the booth.
"I said nothing," my aunt said.
"Your face is saying it," I told her.
My cousin raised his coffee to me in a toast and kept his eyes on the ceiling.
Ramiro came in five minutes later with his hat in his hand.
He stopped at the end of the booth and waited to be told where to stand.
My father looked up at him for a long moment.
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