The Hacker Heiress Strikes Back novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: Raylan's Terms
"I'm paying it back," I said, with my palm still flat on the green ledger.
"Every dollar. Not to her, to the cardiac ward at Grady, in a child's name who can't afford a bill."
Maybelle took her glasses off and wiped them on her cardigan.
"That's the first thing about this book that I like," she said.
"Now go see your young man. He's been standing in the hall for forty minutes pretending to read a fire map."
I found him in the hall.
He was reading the fire map.
"Come with me," Raylan said. "I want to show you something before I say what I came to say."
He drove me to Castleberry Hill, to his warehouse, at six o'clock in the dark.
The forty desks stood empty for the night, but a light burned in the glass room.
On the table lay a single printed page.
It was a list, in his careful block hand, with a line through nothing.
"Read it," he said. "Out loud, please. I need to hear how it sounds."
I read.
"One. Retracted the report in public. Done." I looked up. "I was there."
"Keep going."
"Two. Lost the Merriman contracts, forty percent of revenue. Three. Refused the investors' offer to put me back in the chair."
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