I Can Hear My Paralyzed Billionaire Husband's Thoughts novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: Public Reckoning

"A work order," Rhett said, and laughed. "A garage hand with a grudge and a piece of paper."

His voice was almost perfect.

Only the hand holding his champagne glass had begun to shake.

"You said you wanted the truth," I said into the microphone. "Mr. Gainsborough, the speaker, please."

Kent handed a small black drive to the man at the sound desk, who looked at the old director.

The old director nodded.

For a moment the ballroom was so quiet I could hear the chandeliers tick.

Then Rhett's voice filled the room, pleasant and clear.

"You'd better sign, before somebody decides your grandmother's pillow is too soft."

A woman gasped.

Another man said, "Oh, God."

The recording went on.

"I cut a brake line, didn't I?"

Nobody at the head table moved.

Three hundred people sat with their forks in their hands, and on the platform Rhett's face went slack, and then it went white.

"That's been edited," he said hoarsely. "That's a trick. She's put words in my mouth."

"You said it at your own club," I said. "Over a white tablecloth, looking at me."

"It's a lie!"

"Rhett," the old director said.

He had risen from his chair, one hand on the cane.

"Sit down."

Rhett did not sit.

"This board has been misled by a maid and an invalid," he said, loudly now, to the crowd. "My cousin is not well. Everyone knows..."

"Director," Kent said. "May I?"

He held up a printed page.

"The estate office keycard that opened the staff door the night someone swapped Damian's IV was used at one fifty-two a.m. The office is Mr. Rhett Wicklow's. He holds the master list."

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