He Called My Inheritance a Forgery in Front of Three Hundred Guests, Then Took Every Blow Meant for Me novel · Chapter 30 of 40

Chapter 30: Monday, Six A.M.

Every camera on the dock was on my face.

I could feel the shape of her hand on my cheek, hot, every finger.

I knew what they wanted.

The heiress and the rival's daughter, rolling on a loading dock.

It would have had a million views by dinner.

Danielle was breathing hard.

Her hand was still up, half raised.

I didn't lift it.

"Your father did this to your family," I said.

"Shut up."

"He forged a dead man's name. He sent a car up my drive with no lights on."

"He locked us in the ice house to freeze."

"You know he did. You're the one who let us out."

Her face crumpled for one second.

Then she pulled it straight again, the way she had in the orchard.

"I don't have a family now," she said. "I don't have a job. Everything we own has his name on it."

"The cameras are going to follow me home."

"I know," I said.

She looked at me with real hatred.

Then I said it.

I said it loud enough for the dock and the doorway and every phone held up in it.

"Monday," I said. "Six a.m. Black shoes."

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