The Billionaire Janitor Is Back! novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: December Twelfth
"Tonight," I said.
Wendell's thumb stopped over the screen.
"You haven't even asked what it is."
"I don't need to. You've never once played a card you weren't proud of."
"Edie."
"In the gym, at seven, in front of every family who signed a tuition check. If it's good, they'll want to hear it."
His smile slipped, then came back.
"You'll regret that."
"I regret several things," I said. "This isn't one."
He walked back to his truck as slowly as he had come.
Behind me, in the doorway, Mal said nothing at all, and put his hand flat between my shoulder blades.
By seven that night, there were four hundred people in the gym.
Every folding chair was taken, and parents stood three deep along the walls.
My mother sat in the front row with her purse on her knees.
My father sat beside her in his postal jacket, looking at the board table.
Posey sat on the floor at the foot of the stage in yellow boots, with her chin on her fists.
Seven trustees sat behind the long table with microphones in front of them.
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