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Chapter Forty-Two
Plans to Elope
Keelan Grey stood at the foot of the grave, gazing at the sharply chiseled marks on the stone without really seeing them. This afternoon, they’d buried Papa in the Circular Congregational Church cemetery on Meeting Street. The death bed confession still had her stunned. What would Landon think of it all?
She’d made a promise. Two, actually. The first, to elope with Landon Hart. The second, to find her true father.
She intended to keep both.
Aunt Sarah patted her shoulder. “Keelan, please walk with us,” she prodded in a quiet voice. “Your uncle has arranged a luncheon at Rosewood’s boarding house.”
“I’m not hungry now, Aunt Sarah,” she responded, giving her aunt a small smile. “I need a few moments alone, then I’ll return home.”
And gather my thin
