System Erased Her From My Memory novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Paid in Full
The recording kept playing, and Dalton Rhodes stood in the spotlight and listened to himself.
"I vote eighteen percent of the Vanstone hotels as of Friday at nine, courtesy of a woman who couldn't read a form."
A man at the front table put down his fork.
"Her father is out by Christmas."
Somebody swore, clearly, in the back.
"I paid a man at the front desk two hundred dollars for a photo of you crossing a lobby. It's the best investment I made this year."
"Turn it off!" Dalton shouted.
"Everyone believes a pretty woman is for sale."
He jumped off the stage.
He went for the technician at the back wall, shoving past a waiter with a tray of champagne.
The tray hit the floor and went off.
Finn stepped out of the shadow by the door and put one shoulder into Dalton's chest.
It wasn't a punch.
Dalton simply stopped and sat down hard on the carpet in his tailored suit.
Four hundred phones lifted.
"You are done in this building," Mr. Vanstone said.
His voice wasn't loud.
It didn't have to be.
"You will not enter another property I own, you will not speak to my shareholders, and my attorneys will contact yours about the fraud I now have on tape."
"Delaney!" Dalton scrambled up. "Tell him. Tell him I did it for you!"
Delaney stood on the stage with the microphone in both hands.
"You did it for you," she said. "That's the first true thing I've ever heard you say, and I'm not even the one saying it."
Two security guards took his arms.
He tried to turn back to the room and found nothing in it that would let him smile.
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