Daddy Forgot, but Mommy Remembers novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Constance Falls
Constance walked to the stage.
The troopers held Giselle at the foot of the stairs, and nobody told Constance to stop.
She climbed the three steps with one hand on the rail.
I stepped back and held out the microphone.
She looked at it, and then at me.
Her silver bob was perfect, her pearls were perfect, and her hand was shaking so hard the stand rattled.
"I am Constance Thorsby," she said. "I have been the chair of this Foundation for twenty-two years."
Three hundred people had stopped breathing.
In the second row a reporter lifted a phone.
"Four hundred and eighty thousand dollars left the Foundation's restricted fund," Constance said. "I moved it. Nobody else did."
"My husband lost money in secret, and I covered it with the Foundation's."
"And when the auditors came, I gave them a girl."
A woman at table four said, "Oh my God," into her hands.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Daddy Forgot, but Mommy Remembers are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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