My Family's Bonus Was a $5 Million IOU? Cute I Took the Million-Follower Brand Enjoy the Crash novel · Chapter 8 of 24
Chapter 8: The Recording
"Louisa," Mom said. "Put the phone away."
"My phone was on your credenza that afternoon, Mom. It was charging."
Louisa swallowed.
"I had a voice memo running for the holiday calendar, and I forgot to stop it."
Louisa's thumb was white on the screen.
"It ran for fifty-one minutes. I found it last night."
"That's private. That's a private conversation in a private office."
"Then I'm sorry," Louisa said, and pressed Play.
The tinny speaker filled the dining room.
There was the thump of a door and a chair pulled out.
Then Trent, a little breathless: "He's in the lobby. Callow. He flew in without telling anyone. He's asking the front desk for her by name. He has flowers."
My mother's voice, from the phone, very calm: "Is she here?"
"She's at the cemetery. You told her no and she went anyway."
"Good."
Louisa's grip on the phone tightened.
"Mom, he wants to meet her."
"I know what he wants. If he meets her, he deals with her and not with us."
A small pause.
"We become the vendor that supplies her. Do you understand? Nothing in this company is ours without her."
"So what do I tell him?"
"That she's gone. That she quit."
"He'll ask for her number."
"Then she doesn't exist, Trent. A name we use for the page. I don't care what you say. Just don't let him up in the elevator."
Around the table, nobody breathed.
My aunt had put her hand over her mouth.
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