Harvest of Ambition: A CEO's Odyssey novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: The Letters

Delaney knelt on the Grange floor with a shoebox in her arms.

Nobody in the hall breathed.

"Mason," she said. "Take me back, and I'll burn them in front of you."

"Burn what?"

"Your letters." She lifted the lid an inch.

I saw white envelopes stacked on their sides, tied in bundles with kitchen string.

"Every one you wrote me from the city. All five years. I kept them all."

"Why?"

"Because I loved you." Her voice broke on it. "You'd be surprised how much."

"No," I said. "I wouldn't."

She flinched.

"You want the town to hear what a man you were."

She turned on her knees, and her eyes went around the room, searching for a face that would soften.

"You wrote me things at midnight that you'd never want your father to read."

"If I read them out loud, people will see who you really are."

"Then read them."

Her mouth fell open.

"What?"

"The microphone is on the head table." I stepped aside so she had a clear path. "Go on."

"Mason, I..."

"You wanted an audience."

She stared at me for a long moment.

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