Chapter 13
Thanks JennDur for beta'ing for me.
"Your grandparents, on both sides, firmly believed in keeping within the tribe for dating and marriage. Personally, I didn't care so long as who you loved was a good person."
"That's what should be important."
"You're right, baby," she squeezed my hand. "When I was in high school I dated a boy named Charlie."
"Wait, Charlie? As in Chief Charlie Swan?" My jaw felt like it was touching the ground with how wide open in shock it was.
"Yes, that's the Charlie I dated." She smiled. "He was the most handsome boy I had ever seen, Oh, don't you give me that look! He didn't have that bushy mustache back then. I swear he was quite the looker."
I couldn't help it, I laughed. "Whatever you say, Ma."
"Anyway, my parents didn't like it. Not one bit. They kept demanding I dump Charlie, but I wasn't having it, I kept sneaking around to be with him. It would have been fine, but your someone saw me and told them. They tightened the reins and made sure I wasn't able to go anywhere."
"But what's that have to do with how you and Dad got together?"
More in a few.