I Sent My Husband Fake Cheating Proof, He Flew Home Overnight novel · Chapter 15 of 16

Chapter 15: What He Paid

Deirdre straightened up and waited for my face to break.

Everyone at that table waited.

I turned to my husband.

"Is it true?"

Christian didn't look away.

He never did anymore.

"Yes," he said.

Deirdre smiled.

"Wrentham Print was finished when I met your father," Christian said. "The banks had called every loan. He had three weeks. He knew it."

"Then why did you buy it?"

"Because he asked me to keep the lights on for sixty-one people who'd worked for him their whole lives," Christian said.

"And because it was yours. It was the only thing he had left to leave you."

"Forty million dollars," Deirdre said to the table. "For a business that loses money every year."

"Two point one million last year," Christian said. "I pay it out of my own account, not the company's. Every quarter."

He looked at me.

"It's still printing. Your father's name is still on the door. The woman in accounts still keeps his coffee mug on her desk."

My eyes stung.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because you'd have thought the same thing she just said." He nodded at Deirdre without looking at her.

"That I bought you. I didn't want you to spend your whole life feeling like a receipt."

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