The Hidden Goddess Who Made Him Beg novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Paragraph Nine
I did not open the envelope in front of the cameras.
I said, "Thank you, I'll read it when I'm done being photographed," and the lawyer smiled like a man who had expected better.
I read it in the hospital stairwell, between the second and third floors, with Tobias standing guard below me.
Eleven pages of 2005 legalese, and paragraph nine on the sixth.
The Beacon Trust, formed from the proceeds of this agreement, shall vote its Bulfinch Group holdings as the sitting chairman directs in writing.
It said so in perpetuity.
I read it again, in case the words had shifted.
They had not.
"Miss Delphine?" Tobias called up. "You've gone quiet in a way I don't like."
"My thirty-four percent," I said, "has been Leopold's for twenty years."
He climbed the steps and took the page from my hand.
He read with his lips moving, which he never let me see.
"It's a leash," he said at last. "The whole Trust is a leash."
"He let her buy and buy."
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