My Secret Lover Is Actually My Boss novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: Sixteen Thursdays
The host looked at me.
Three hundred heads turned with him, from the back of the hall to the stage.
Lyle laughed into his microphone. "Of course. The boyfriend."
Leon didn't answer him.
He was waiting for me.
His text was still on my phone. I won't say anything unless you want me to.
I knew what was on that phone.
I knew what it would cost him to put it on a screen.
His name next to mine in every trade paper in the country, with dates.
"Give him the screen," I said.
The host hesitated. "Ms. Ruddick, this is a panel, not a..."
"You called it Who Owns a Card," I said. "He has the answer."
In the fourth row the bookstore buyer said, "Oh, let him."
A few people laughed.
The host waved at the tech booth.
Leon came down the center aisle without hurrying.
He handed his phone up to a kid in a headset at the edge of the stage.
The kid plugged it in.
Lyle's list of files vanished.
A card filled the screen, twelve feet high.
Cream stock, laid flat on a hotel desk under a lamp.
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