Too Late to Beg: I'm No Longer Yours novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: Read It Out Loud

"Danica," I said. "Stay."

I didn't use the microphone, and I didn't need to.

Danica's hand stayed on the door.

Four hundred people had just watched Troy on his knees, and now they watched her.

"I think I should go," she said.

"You should read something first."

She turned around slowly.

Her eyes were already wet, and the butterfly clip hung crooked in her hair.

A man in a gray blazer stood two tables from her with a glass in his hand.

I knew him from the Christmas party she'd dragged me to two years ago. He was her boss at the agency, and he had just stopped talking to the woman beside him.

"Marin, please," Danica said. "Not in front of everyone."

"You sat at my table for ten years of birthdays."

"I only found out last week," she said, fast. "After the card got frozen. Troy told me. I swear I didn't know before."

The room was quiet enough that I heard someone's ice shift.

"Okay," I said. "Dean?"

Dean came out of the booth with his phone in his hand and passed it to me.

I held it out to Danica.

"The top message," I said. "Read it out loud."

She looked at the screen and didn't take it.

"I'd rather not."

"I know."

"Marin."

"Danica, read it."

She took the phone with both hands.

Her mouth moved before any sound came.

"Sent you the letter," she read. "Do not say it came from me."

Her voice cracked on the last word.

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