Profit Prophecy novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: What Money Reads
I walked out onto the lot without my coat.
Gerald was on the last wheel well, and the sponge shook in his bleeding fingers.
"That's enough," I said.
He looked up, and for a moment he didn't understand.
"I said once, Gerald. It was once."
The old salesman with the gray mustache came out of the showroom with a towel and a pair of work gloves.
He didn't look at me.
He put the towel around Gerald's shoulders and said, "Come inside, Mr. Maddox. There's coffee."
"I don't deserve," Gerald began.
"Nobody's saying you do. Come and sit."
They went in together, and the customers moved aside without a word.
The glass door swung shut.
I stood in the cold with my hands in my pockets and my face stiff, and the lot was very quiet.
Roxy stood beside me with her arms wrapped around her coat.
"I'm not saying he's innocent," she said.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Profit Prophecy are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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