This Heiress Doesn't Fight Anymore novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: What Did You Lose
I pulled on my sandals and went down.
The grass was wet.
The yard light buzzed over the railway, full of moths.
Hugo didn't come toward me.
He stood where he was, by the cradle, under Wind Rose's new mast, as if he'd forgotten how to walk.
Up close he looked worse.
His eyes were red.
His good shirt had a coffee stain down the front, and his dive watch was on the wrong wrist.
"Is this real?" he said.
He held out the page.
I didn't take it.
"You know it's real. You watched me send it."
"The buyer's lawyer read it to the board at nine o'clock tonight. On speakerphone. In front of Dad."
He looked down at the paper.
"Page four. The keel lead at the wrong station. She'll list hard to port at the dock."
"You wrote that three weeks ago."
"Yes."
"She listed hard to port at the dock."
"I know, Hugo. I watched."
He made a sound I'd never heard from him.
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