Was the Heiress Switched at Birth? novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Terms of Return
They walked Roland Kenworthy up the center aisle between two green uniforms.
His bow tie was crooked, and the gold watch hung out of his vest.
Nobody shouted.
Eight hundred people simply turned in their chairs as he passed, and watched.
At the fourth row the woman with the yardstick lifted my mother's poster-sized smile into his path.
He stopped, because he had to.
He looked at it for a long moment, and then the guards moved him on.
The directors voted him out of the chairmanship on a show of hands, seven to nothing.
Cordelia took the microphone once more.
"I resign as chief executive, effective today," she said.
"The board will name someone who has not lied to you."
She laid her pearls on the podium and walked off the stage and out the side door.
She did not look back at me.
She came to the duplex at seven that evening.
She came alone, in a taxi, in a gray raincoat, with one small suitcase.
I was on the porch steps in the cold with a mug of tea going cold in my hands.
She stopped at the foot of the walk.
"May I?" she said.
"You may stand there."
She stood there.
"I resigned," she said.
"I saw."
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