The Missing Heir novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Micah
Four hundred people waited for the answer, and Niles let them wait.
He climbed the three steps to the stage and stood beside his mother at the microphone.
She took her hand off the lectern and laid it on his sleeve.
He bent the mic down to his height with his one good hand.
"I've been called three names this month," he said.
"John Doe, Micah, and Niles.
I'd like to tell you which one I answer to."
Nobody coughed.
"My father built this chapel and this wing, and I'm grateful for both.
I was raised to take the chair at the head of the table.
I'm declining it."
A shock went through the hall.
The board chair opened his mouth and closed it.
"I'm not saying it out of grief, or confusion, or because a man hit me with a van.
I'm saying it because the last three weeks were the first time I was ever asked to be useful instead of important."
He glanced at me across the lobby.
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