Four Brothers and a Bride novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Gala
I didn't take it right away.
"Why are you giving this to me?" I said.
"Because you're the only person in this city he's more afraid of than my father."
She pushed her sunglasses up into her hair.
Her eyes were swollen, and she hadn't bothered to hide it.
"After you left on Monday night, I asked him again where the money came from. He told me to stop being hysterical."
"Then he went to bed, and I opened his laptop. He uses the same password for everything. It's my birthday."
She almost laughed.
"That was the worst part. That he was sweet enough to use my birthday."
I took the folder.
It was heavy.
"Come in," I said. "There's a kettle and a cat. The owner's asleep, so we can talk."
She stepped over the threshold.
She looked at the stacks, the cracked window, the cat in the travel section.
"He told me you were a sad little girl in a sad little shop," she said.
"He told me you were his boss's daughter," I said. "And then he told everybody else I was nobody."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Four Brothers and a Bride are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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