From Secret Desire for My Stepbrother to Reality novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: Release
For a moment the room was completely silent.
I watched it happen from the stage.
Fifteen hundred heads tipped up at the same angle.
Tom was still smiling at the front rows, holding my pen.
Then he saw their faces, and he turned around.
"Holds," I read into my mic. "Forty-one thousand live."
A sound went through the gray shirts.
It wasn't a gasp.
It was lower than that.
"Release equals churn," I read. "Do not release before the next round."
In row four, a man in a gray shirt started doing the math out loud, and then stopped, because he'd finished it.
"Kill the screen," Tom said into his headset.
Nobody killed the screen.
At the side of the stage, the tech kept his hands flat on the table beside his laptop, where everybody could see them.
"That's fabricated," Tom said.
He turned to the room with his arms out.
"Folks, this is exactly what I was worried about. She's been under enormous..."
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