He Signed the Divorce Without Reading Page Nine novel · Chapter 19 of 48

Chapter 19: Dead by Now

Nobody on the roof said a word.

The trainer stood with his hand in Madison's and his chin up.

"I'm the baby's father," he said. "I'm not here to hurt anyone."

"You," Trevor said.

"I trained you for two years. You never learned my name."

"Get off my roof."

"It isn't your roof," I said.

He didn't hear me.

He was looking at Madison.

"You swore you wouldn't," he said. "I paid for your apartment. I paid for the dress."

"You told me the baby was yours," Madison said.

"It was a story!"

The whole roof heard that.

He realized it a second later.

He closed his mouth, and it was too late.

Madison stepped forward with her phone in her fist.

"The week I told you I was pregnant, you asked me who the father was," she said, loudly. "I told you, and you said, perfect."

Her voice shook, and she kept going.

"Then you called it a one-in-two-thousand miracle and told me to say it. You said the market loves a family story. You said if I put your name on it, you'd make me creative director and everyone would clap. And they did."

She turned to the underwriters.

"He knew from the first week," she said. "He used my baby to sell his company."

The woman in the gray suit looked at Trevor for a long time.

"That's securities fraud on top of the escrow," she said, to nobody in particular. "He put an invented heir in the prospectus."

Trevor's mouth worked.

Then he did the thing I had been waiting for since the anniversary.

He turned to me with real hatred.

"You did this," he said. "You were supposed to be dead by now."

The roof stopped.

Even the wind seemed to drop.

I heard it, and so did a hundred people behind me.

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