Chapter 13
Thomas Bell’s name returned to the club.
Not on a giant plaque.
Alina refused that.
“He would hate it.”
Instead, Samuel Pike suggested something smaller.
The old tack locker.
We restored Thomas’s brass name strip.
THOMAS BELL — MOUNT STEWARD.
Nothing about scandal.
Nothing about innocence.
His real job.
His real name.
Enough.
Alina stood there with Lucy.
My daughter traced the letters she could not read.
“Grandpa?”
Alina froze.
Then smiled.
“Yes.”
Lucy had never met Thomas.
Still hers.
No Carbone permission required.
May you like
I stood back.
Some restorations should not center the powerful family that caused the damage.
