Heartbreak Brings Mr. Right novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Door Closes
Hollister's fist caught Rafferty on the cheekbone with a crack that rang off the chandeliers.
Rafferty's head snapped to the side.
He straightened slowly, with a thin line of red at the corner of his mouth.
His hands stayed open at his sides.
"That's the only one you get," he said quietly.
"I promised my sister I wouldn't hit you, and I won't."
Hollister drew back his arm again.
Two of the investors and the chairman of the board caught him by the elbows and dragged him off.
He kicked a chair over and screamed that it was a forgery, that it was a trap, that Caldecott had bought every word.
Nobody answered him.
His father rose from my father's right hand with both palms on the cloth.
"Sit down, Hollister," he said.
It was the voice of a man who had said it to a small boy, once, and had not been obeyed.
He turned to the foot of the table.
"Miss Caldecott. Is it true?"
"Ask him for the note," Sonya said.
I took the promissory note out of the tin and walked it down the long table to him.
He read it standing, and I watched the color leave his face in stages.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Heartbreak Brings Mr. Right are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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