She Begged for Me Back After I Left novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: Con Man
Nolan's POV
We took the elevator down together, and nobody spoke.
Camille held her phone with the screen still lit.
Dalton's voice came out of it, small and wet and brave.
"I took him in as a brother," he was saying. "I gave him my trust. And he told my sisters that he died in another world and came back to save them."
The panel in my eye read 1.6.
It had not fallen yet, but I could feel it thinking about it.
"He's unwell," Dalton said. "I don't say that to hurt him. But he drained fifty thousand dollars from this family's accounts, and he made two grieving women believe he could trade his life for mine."
"I tore up that check," I said.
"I know," Alana said. "I watched you do it."
The doors opened on the lobby.
It was full.
Reporters stood three deep behind the velvet rope.
Dalton stood in the middle of them in a gray suit, with one hand pressed to his ribs and a glass of water in the other.
He did not drink it.
He saw us, and his whole face lit with relief that nearly fooled me.
"Cam," he said. "Alana. Thank God you're safe."
Every camera in the lobby swung toward us.
A woman with a recorder shoved it at my chin.
"Mr. Culligan, did you tell the Winterbournes you came from another world?"
Before the gala the System would have stopped my tongue.
The mission was closed now, and nothing stopped it.
"Yes," I said. "I told them."
A hum went through the crowd.
"And is it true?"
"Yes."
Somebody laughed out loud.
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