Dead Before the Truth Revealed novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The Gate
Anthony's POV
I drove her to Edmund's gate myself, and she did not say a word until I stopped the car.
"Don't follow me up the drive," she said. "I want to arrive alone."
"I'll be here."
"Anthony, you can't be here. Your mother's people know your car."
"Then I'll be here in it."
She almost smiled. Then she got out with the tote bag and walked up the gravel in her torn sweatshirt, and the cabin door opened for her before she reached it.
I watched until the light went on.
My hand was still warm from where it had rested against her back.
I put the car in gear before I could think about that any longer.
The chairwoman of the foundation board kept an office on the thirty-first floor of a bank, and she did not like being interrupted in the afternoon.
She looked at me over her glasses when her assistant let me in.
"You've lost the family trust this morning," she said. "I heard before you parked."
"My mother moves fast."
"She does. What do you want, Anthony?"
I put the county log on her desk.
I had a copy for each board member in a folder under my arm, and I put those down too.
"The Ellingwood woman who is dead," I said. "She is not dead. She pulled me out of Cutler Lake. Camille Ellingwood did not. This is the hospital's record of her admission, stamped before Camille ever made her first call."
The chairwoman read the first page without moving her face.
She read the second.
"Does your mother know you're showing this to me?"
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