He Called My Inheritance a Forgery in Front of Three Hundred Guests, Then Took Every Blow Meant for Me novel · Chapter 40 of 40
Chapter 40: The Heir
I went up the fourteen back stairs from the pantry.
I didn't count them.
I knew.
The study door at the end of the hall was open an inch.
Morning light came through the tall window and lay across the desk in a pale stripe, where the moon had lain a year ago.
Nobody was there.
My father's green pen was on the blotter, where I always left it now.
Beside it sat a small box covered in dark green velvet.
Under the box was a second sheet of cream paper, in the same green ink.
I'll be in the kitchen. You know where the microphone is.
I picked the box up.
My hands were shaking.
I opened it.
It wasn't a diamond.
It was a small square stone, dark green, in a plain gold band.
The exact green of my mother's dress.
I stood in my father's study and laughed out loud, alone, with my hand over my mouth.
Then I closed the box and went to get dressed.
The Glasshouse was lit gold for the Harvest Gala every October.
Three hundred guests.
The banker at the board table with the accountant and the car dealer, and one empty chair.
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