I Gave Him Freedom, He Came Crawling Back in Tears novel · Chapter 12 of 24
Chapter 12: All Hands
At nine on Wednesday morning, the whole company stood in the big conference room, and I walked in wearing my gray cap.
Marla walked in beside me with a manila folder and her reading glasses on their chain.
Tatum stood at the head of the table next to the chairman of the board.
She had a laptop open and her pink cardigan buttoned to the neck.
She looked like a girl who had been wronged.
"Thank you all for coming," the chairman said, with his hands folded. "A serious concern has been raised. I'd like to hear it, and then hear the reply."
Tatum raised her chin.
"I don't enjoy this," she said, and her voice shook just right. "But Willa Draper has been lying to this office."
"She says she's sick. She isn't. She has no medical leave on file, nothing."
I said nothing.
"And she moved sixty-one thousand dollars out of a company account the same week she left her husband."
"Did you check that?" Marla asked.
"I saw the check."
"Did you check where it came from?"
Tatum hesitated.
Marla opened her folder and slid a single page across the table to the chairman.
"It's drawn on Willa's own savings account at First Federal," she said. "Opened by her grandmother in 1998. I've had the bank's letter since yesterday."
The chairman read it, and his eyebrows went up and stayed there.
"That's a personal account."
"It is."
Tatum turned pink.
"Then she had help from someone," she said quickly. "And the cancer is still..."
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