The Slum Heiress Bringing Down the Elite Clan novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Pick Up
The recorder crackled, and then a woman's voice filled the boardroom.
"Mother. It's me. Pick up. Please pick up."
Wind roared in the speaker and under it I heard water slapping a piling.
I had never heard my mother's voice.
I had imagined it for twenty-three years, low or bright or tired, and I had been wrong every time.
It was young, and scared, and it sounded like mine.
"I know what you said today. I'm not calling for money."
"I'm on the pier, Mother. Eugene is here."
The woman at the end of the table put her hand over her mouth.
"He says Maeve and I can't leave. He says if I go to the Flats, I'm still your heir."
"The thirty percent comes to me and my child on the day you die, and he can't let that happen."
"I told him I'd sign anything. She's got a fever, Mother. She's four years old."
A man's voice cut in, faint and flat and unmistakable.
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