Chapter 24: He'll Pay
And so I found myself back in Wellport.
Every time the phone rang, I raced to it, hoping to hear Charlie’s voice, or at least Calvin’s. It was always someone else.
Everywhere I went in town, everyone I talked to, reminded me of a memory I had made with Charlie. But that made the hole he had left in my life ache even more.
It was as if he had died.
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It was a Thursday, and the mail had come in as usual.
I sorted two packages off to one side, letters to another, flyers to yet another, and picked up the newspaper.
Every now and then, I scanned the newspaper that the lawyer had ordered from Boston. I eagerly searched every single page for any reference to a Xander or even a Mary from a prominent family.
I never saw anything that I could tie to either of them. I didn’t expect this day to be any different.
Turning the pages, I read about weather, sports, murders, politics, and then...There was a notice in the social column.
“Mary Hampton to Wed Xander Crafton.”