When I Flash Married a Billionaire novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: The Pledge
The boardroom was a glass room off the atrium, with a long walnut table and seven leather chairs.
At ten to seven the chairs were mostly empty, and Ewan stood alone at the glass door with his back to the corridor.
He was looking at the dark atrium, where the bridges hung over the empty floor.
I stopped three feet behind him.
He knew it was me before I spoke.
His shoulders changed.
"You pledged your father's company," I said.
He turned around slowly.
He looked older than he had at nine that morning, and the freckles stood out on his gray face.
"Who told you?"
"A drive full of Dexter's emails, and a sister who's finally on my side."
"All right," Ewan said.
"All right is not an answer."
"It's the true one."
"Every share," I said. "At 8:52, eight minutes before you tore up the list."
"Yes."
"What happens if you lose tonight?"
"If they remove me as chair, the investor calls the pledge.
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