The Intern is the Undercover Boss novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Back
He held the envelope out across the carpet, and I got up off the floor to take it.
It was heavy, eleven typed pages, with his signature at the bottom of each.
Statement of Cullen Averill.
I read the first paragraph and had to stop.
He had written down the stairwell, the basement and the records room, plain as a ledger.
He had written that the woman called Dara Ross had stood up for a terrified intern at her own risk.
"You'll sign it in front of the board," I said.
"I'll read it in front of the board."
"Why?"
"Because it's true."
He shut the door behind him and stayed against it.
"I'm not here because I forgave you," he said.
"I know."
"I sat on that porch for a night and most of a day."
"Hannah drove up here and showed me a video of you on a sidewalk."
"You were alone."
"You had no coat."
"I had a coat. I left it in the car."
"Delaney."
He said my name like a threat.
"I'm so angry I can't see straight. I've been angry since the atrium, and I don't have anywhere to put it."
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