The Bad-ass Heiress Returns After Divorce novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: What Eleanor Meant
Grady Memorial still smelled of floor wax and burnt coffee.
I had not been inside since the morning I signed the divorce, and my feet slowed on the lobby tile by themselves.
Rhona took my elbow and walked me past the elevator where I had last stood in a blanket.
The cardiac floor was two levels above the emergency room where I had been told, and I made myself not count them.
The board chair was waiting by the nurses' station in her gray coat, with her silver hair pinned back.
"It was her rhythm," she said. "The pacemaker caught it, and the doctor says she'll keep her heart."
"Is she awake?"
"She asked for you before she asked for water."
"Then she can wait a minute," I said.
The board chair nodded slowly, as if she had expected that and approved of it.
"Before you go in, I have to put something to you."
"Go on."
"The bylaws say that when a chair is unable to serve, the board names who holds her seat."
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