Half A Million For A Girlfriend, Both Men Belong To Me novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: Autumn's Ledger

The laugh started at the back tables and rolled forward until it reached the stage.

It was the sound of four hundred people deciding to stay for the next part.

"Thank you, Autumn," I said into the microphone. "That was very thorough. I'd like to correct the record."

Autumn still had the clicker in her hand.

"Abby, I'm only trying to..."

"Contract A is accurate," I said. "I charged half a million dollars, with eleven line items, and he signed every one."

Beckett lifted his glass an inch in agreement.

"Contract B is accurate too. Rowan paid me ten thousand a week for reports, and I delivered them."

"Bananas," Rowan said, from behind me. "Mostly bananas."

A man at the front table choked on his wine.

"I'm a bad liar and a very good vendor," I said. "I'm not refunding anything. What I want to know is how a volunteer got a page out of that notebook, and an invoice I only ever emailed to one person."

Autumn's smile held, a little tighter.

"Documents get around," she said gently.

"Dell?"

Dell was already out of her chair.

She came up the center aisle in her black suit and her ABBY'S LAWYER tag, and she took the steps to the stage one at a time, for effect.

"Objection," she said.

"To what?" the emcee asked.

"To everything. Autumn, is that screen mirroring your laptop?"

"Don't touch that."

Dell pressed Escape.

The slides vanished, and the giant screen behind us showed Autumn's desktop, with a spreadsheet open and six tabs along the bottom.

Four hundred people read it at once.

The first tab was called SEATING.

The second was called B.A. SIGHTINGS, and under it, in neat color-coded rows, was every time Beckett had been alone and reachable, and then every time he'd been seen with me.

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