After His Betrayal, I Became the Woman He Couldn't Afford novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Who Cut the Video
Bea's cousin did not wait to be asked twice.
The chandeliers dimmed, the screen behind the head table went black, and a chair creaked in the speakers.
"I have a list," said Brooks's mother's voice, low and clear, to a hundred and twenty people. "Three families. I'm told the Tarrants are the most promising."
She was standing three feet from me, and every head in the ballroom turned to her.
"Tarrant Supply is a joke," said Brooks's father's voice. "The father's barely solvent."
"He has a warehouse lot worth nine million. And a daughter who runs his books and has never been married. Find her a way to Brooks."
My father made a small sound behind me.
I did not look at him.
"Tell Brooks I want her engaged by the fall."
The recording ended.
For a moment, nobody in the ballroom moved at all.
"That's private," Brooks's mother said. Her voice shook. "That was a private conversation in a private office. It's been doctored."
"It has not," Rafe said from my left, quietly. "The family office has a security recorder. You had it installed. I can name the company."
"Where did she get it?"
"From someone who worked in your house," I said.
A man stood up at table three.
He was heavy, white-haired, with a napkin still tucked in his collar.
"Madam," he said, "I put forty million dollars into this company, on the strength of your husband's word."
"Sit down, sir."
"I will not," he said, and tore off the napkin. "You chose a girl's father's land. You chose it from a list. And in the spring you were telling me the company was healthy."
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