Accidentally Pregnant with the Horror Boss novel · Chapter 19 of 32

Chapter 19: Another Takes His Place

I read it three times.

Then I heard Penny's voice in the hall, too loud, too bright.

"Okay, your liver's probably fine! Go back in! Go!"

I shut the ledger and dove for the dumbwaiter.

I got my knees in just as the library door opened.

I slid the hatch shut and yanked the rope twice.

The box shot up so fast my stomach stayed behind.

Ambrose pulled me out of it in the butler's pantry. His hands felt like tissue paper.

"Did you find the rule?" he said. "Could you tear it?"

I looked at him.

He saw my face and stopped talking.

The gardener let go of the rope and shuffled out without a word. Even the dead know when to leave a room.

"There isn't a way," I said. "That's what you told me. On the piano bench. After Mirror Night."

He closed his eyes.

"You said there isn't. You said it so fast I didn't even notice."

"Daisy."

"The Master stays until another takes his place." I could hardly get the words out. "That's your handwriting, Ambrose. That's your little neat piano writing."

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