You Fired a Tech Genius novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: Gilbert Alone
The nurse pushed the wheelchair down the aisle of staff, and nobody moved out of its way until it was nearly on them.
Then they parted, one at a time.
Gilbert stopped at the foot of the stage.
He didn't look at me.
"Every word Axel said is true," he said, and his soft voice carried because the room had gone dead silent.
"Every word my son said is true too, as it happens."
"Dad," Braxton said into the headset, and the speakers gave it back to him, huge and thin.
"I gave the order," Gilbert said. "Mine was the voice."
Six hundred people watched an old man in a cardigan say it without once raising his head.
"I put a boy's hands on it so I wouldn't have to use mine for the last one. That is the whole story."
Braxton dropped the headset.
It hit the stage with a crack that rang through the speakers, and he stood with his empty hands open.
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