He Called Our Son a Curse, Now I Own His Company novel · Chapter 4 of 24

Chapter 4: Camille at the Door

Camille rang the bell at one o'clock exactly.

I had Max down for his quiet hour with the ferry book, and I had my phone leaning against the fruit bowl on the kitchen island with the camera pointed at the stool.

"Come in," I said. "I made tea."

"You didn't have to."

"I wanted to."

She sat on the stool with her bag on her lap and looked around my kitchen slowly, at the cabinets, the window and the refrigerator.

I poured her a cup.

"Did you get through them?" she asked brightly. "Landon's been calling every ten minutes. He's such a worrier about paperwork."

"I'm on page eleven," I said. "There's a lot of it."

"There's a lot of everything with him."

She laughed, and I laughed too.

"Camille, can I ask you something? It's silly."

"Anything."

"Why do they need my signature every quarter? It's Max's name on them, but he's six."

Her cup stopped halfway to her mouth.

It was the smallest pause, and then she put the cup down carefully.

"It's just the family's old paperwork," she said. "A trust thing. My husband set it up years ago, and it needs a parent's name. It's a formality."

"He set it up for Max?"

"For the grandchildren, in general." She waved a hand. "Landon says it's the most boring part of his week."

"Does Landon sign them too?"

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