From Secret Desire for My Stepbrother to Reality novel · Chapter 24 of 32

Chapter 24: Forwarded

"Don't forward it," I said. "Don't post it. Don't show anybody. Can you drive up?"

"I'm already in the car."

She was at the shop by two, in her safety vest, with her braid coming loose.

She'd come straight off a shift.

The apprentice flipped the sign to CLOSED without being asked.

Kath came down from the loft with her laptop.

Jem stood beside me at the counter.

The woman from Tacoma put her phone face up on the glass between the lollipops and the key display.

"Read it," she said. "I can't read it again."

At the top was a reply from Hush support.

We're sorry. Heard reveals are final and can't be refunded.

Under it was a line a support agent had typed to her own manager.

How do we answer these? We've got four thousand.

Under that, the manager had forwarded the question up.

And under that, at the very bottom, was an email from last March.

From: Tom Sedgwick.

To: the head of growth.

Subject: Holds plus Heard. The math.

I read it out loud, because nobody else was going to.

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