Everyone Called Me His Girl, but He Said It Was Nothing novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: One Minute
I put on jeans and my coat and left Hayes at the window.
"I'll be fine," I said.
"I know," he said.
"I'll be right here anyway."
The dock was wet and silver, and my boots rang on the planks.
Gavin stood under the lamp with his shirt untucked and his tie in his pocket.
He looked as if he had walked the whole way from the hotel.
"Thank you for coming out," he said.
I took out my phone and opened the timer.
"One minute," I said.
He stared at it.
"Rhea."
"You asked for one."
I pressed start.
He drew a breath.
"Monday I'm going to the board," he said.
"I'm going to give them every email and every text my mother ever sent me about you, and about the trust."
"I'm not asking them to go easy on me."
"I'm going to work wherever they'll have me, on a loading dock if it comes to that."
"Hayes can fire me if he wants."
"He won't," I said.
"He might."
"He won't."
A long moment passed.
He put his hand in his pocket and took out a folded sheet.
It was the receipt I'd written him in the car, with the balance crossed out in his handwriting.
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