The Fake Debutante and the True Billionaire novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Bait
I walked out onto Broad Street with the pen still in my hand.
I hadn't known I'd kept it.
I dropped it in a planter outside the map shop and stood there until the shaking started.
It started in my knees and worked up.
My phone had four texts from Carlisle, each shorter than the one before.
The last one said, Jess.
I didn't call.
I walked the nine blocks to Tradd Street in my heels.
The door opened before I could knock.
He was still in his coat, and he had never gone to his office.
He led me into the kitchen without a word.
"I told you to wait there," I said.
"I tried for ten minutes."
He looked at my face, and whatever he read there turned his own face to stone.
"Tell me."
I told him.
It took four minutes, and I left nothing out.
By the end he had crossed to the window and put both fists on the sill.
"The roof," he said. "She said the roof."
"Yes."
His voice dropped to something I had not heard from him.
"She bought you, Jess, and she put you in front of me like a plate."
"Yes."
"Then it's over today."
He turned, already reaching into his pocket for his phone.
"My counsel is in the car in ten minutes. Security has the lawyer's door on camera."
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