Phoenix Of Ruin: My Second Life Comes With A Better Man novel · Chapter 15 of 24

Chapter 15: Pemberton Group Falls

Six hundred people stared at Talia Whitby on her knee, and nobody offered her a hand.

"It's fake," she said. Her voice cracked. "Those papers are fake. Blaine, tell them."

Blaine did not answer.

He was staring at the blue signature on the screen.

"Talia," he said slowly. "You told me the doctors said your kidneys were failing."

"They did. They did say that."

A gray-haired man stepped out of the crowd.

He wore a plain suit, and he was clearly afraid, and he came forward anyway.

"I am the head of nephrology at Sleridge Memorial," he said. "Ms. Whitby's kidneys have never been sick. I told Mr. Pemberton so, and he booked the surgery in spite of it."

Leigh looked at the doctor.

She had promised him a guarantee, and he had come to collect it in front of the whole city.

A sound ran around the atrium like a wave.

Talia climbed to her feet and turned on Blaine.

"You're the one who wanted a donor," she said, loud and clear. "You said you'd do anything for me. You said it a hundred times."

Blaine took a step back.

For ten years he had believed every word she said, and now he heard his own promise thrown back at him in front of his friends.

"I said that because you were sick," he said.

"I was sick because of her!"

"Enough," Conroy said.

Talia's two lawyers closed in on either side of her, and they walked her out through a crowd that parted without a word.

The cameras followed every step.

On the stage, Howard leaned on his cane and looked at his granddaughter.

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