The Soccer Star's Forgotten Wife novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: What's Owed
The owner sent a car for me on Tuesday.
I sent it back and drove myself.
The club's press room was in the low white building at the training ground, where I'd walked onto the pitch in September.
Two rows of chairs, a podium with the crest, and every reporter in Denver.
Robin came with me.
The owner was waiting by the side door.
He looked older than he had in May.
"Ms. Raynor," he said. "Thank you for coming."
"You said it had to be in person."
"It does." He looked at the room. "I said the other thing in person."
He went to the podium.
I stood at the side, by the wall.
"In May I stood in a ballroom and toasted my captain and his girlfriend," he said. "His wife was standing in front of me. I called her sweetheart, and I let my own people laugh at her."
The room was very quiet.
"For five years, this woman did the analysis work that made my captain the player I was paying. She did it at her kitchen table, for nothing, under a name that wasn't hers." He gripped the podium. "And when she found the fix in my club, I sat in my box and looked away from her."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of The Soccer Star's Forgotten Wife are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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