The CEO Hired a Size 20 Fake Wife, Then Couldn't Keep His Hands Off Her novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: Back Seat

The nameplate was heavier than it looked.

Four hundred eyes were on me.

"Take it," I said.

Declan took it back out of my hands, and the keys with it.

He turned to the room and held it up once.

The back rows roared.

It was a different roar from the yard, deeper, and it shook the glass in the windows.

Terrence stood up slowly.

His lawyer was gathering folders and not looking at him.

"This isn't over," Terrence said.

"It is," said the chairman. "Security will escort you to your office for your personal effects. Counsel will call about the Harbourline fee."

Two guards in gray suits came down the aisle.

Terrence looked around the room for one friendly face and found none.

He looked at Claire.

"Claire," he said. "Please. The boys."

"The boys are with my sister," she said. "They'll be staying with me."

She took off her wedding ring.

She set it down on the table in front of him, softly, the way I had once set mine beside a cake.

"I'll file Monday," she said.

He picked up the ring and put it in his pocket and walked out between the guards.

Nobody in the back row booed.

They just stood with their hard hats at their sides, and let him walk the whole length of the aisle alone.

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