This Heiress Doesn't Fight Anymore novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: Dinner
"Okay," I said.
He stood up, nodded to Gran, and walked back up the gravel to his car.
Gran watched him go.
"He didn't eat my chowder," she said. "Probation extended."
Friday came, and Archer's deadline with it.
Bess checked every paper and every society site at breakfast, lunch and supper.
Nobody printed anything about anybody's mistress.
On Sunday I put on the one thing I'd bought with my own pay.
It was a plain blue dress from a tourist shop on Bellevue Avenue.
Seth put on his clean white shirt.
"You don't have to come in," I said.
"I know."
"It's going to be awful."
"I've had Gran's Thanksgiving. I can do awful."
The cottage on Ocean Drive looked like somebody else's house.
Arabella had painted the gray shingles white.
My grandmother's old blue door was white.
Through the front window I could see that the sea paintings were gone, and my grandmother's sagging reading chair.
Everything inside was white and new and smelled like a candle store.
Hugo opened the door before I knocked.
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