Fake Names with Me Love Bombs for Her? Screw This Secret CEO Wife Is Done novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: The Witness Line

I picked the paper up off the podium.

It was a clean sheet of heavy cream stock, typed, with a signature at the bottom in looping blue cursive.

Frank Corrigan.

I looked at it for a long moment.

"May I?" I said to the room, and held it up so the cameras could see it.

"Of course, dear," Odile said. "Take your time."

I reached into my father's jacket and took out the one thing I had carried away from the bank vault.

It was a single sheet of lined paper, folded in four, written in pencil.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO RUN IT. YOU JUST HAVE TO OWN IT. LOVE, DAD.

I unfolded it and held it beside the amendment.

"My father printed," I said. "Every letter, every capital, his whole life. His grocery lists were in capitals. He printed my name on my birthday cards, and the Christmas I turned nine he printed the instructions for my bike."

I turned the two pages toward the first row.

"He never wrote one line of cursive. He said it was for people who wanted to hide what they were saying."

The lawyer cleared his throat.

"Signatures change," he said. "A man in his last week, on medication."

"Then maybe someone who was there can tell me who witnessed it."

I looked at the bottom of the amendment.

There was a second line, under the signature, in the same blue ink.

Witnessed this day by: N. Conway.

For a moment I could not make my mouth work.

Then I started to laugh.

It wasn't a good laugh. It went on until I put my hand on the podium.

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