Her Broke Handyman Husband Was the Secret Billionaire novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Roberta's Chair
"Is anyone hurt?" I typed.
"Only the hood," my mother wrote back, a minute later. "And the roof. And my pride, which is the only one that matters."
"I told you," Elias said into my hair. "I said to move it."
"Don't."
"I'm only saying."
"She wrote about her pride," I said. "To me. In a text."
He was quiet for a moment.
"Then she's learning," he said, and kissed my shoulder.
On Monday morning, the boardroom had two new chairs.
They were oak, with ladder backs and wide seats, and they stood at my grandfather's walnut table.
My mother sat at the far end in a folding chair, with her camel coat on her lap.
She had asked for it herself.
Roberta sat at my right in her navy dress and her big glasses, gripping a legal pad.
"I don't know how to do this," she whispered.
"Nobody does."
"I get hungry when people say 'amortize'."
"Then we'll serve snacks."
The door opened.
The foreman came in first, in clean work pants, holding his hat in both hands.
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