They Chose the Daughter I Found, So I Called In Their Loans novel · Chapter 17 of 24

Chapter 17: The Headline

Gabriel's POV

I read the headline at five in the morning, standing in Jackie's kitchen with a cup of her assistant's coffee.

I wanted to burn down Chestnut Street.

I had never wanted that about a house.

The Foundation's accusation had been up for sixteen hours.

Four other outlets had picked it up.

One of them used the word thief in a subhead.

"I can have my litigation team file for defamation by nine," I said.

Jackie was sitting on the second stair in my shirt, again, with her knees pulled up and a blanket around her shoulders.

She had not slept, and neither had I.

"No," she said.

"They accused you of a felony."

"I know what they accused me of," she said.

"Then let me end it," I said.

"Gabriel." She looked up. "The audit's clean. I wrote the books."

"You wrote the..."

"For the Foundation, since I was twenty-one. Every transfer is a line in a ledger I built. Their chief financial officer signs nothing without it." She said it flatly, and she was very pale. "She hasn't thought that through. Mrs. Selwyn never reads a ledger. She reads people."

I put down the cup.

"So we file," I said. "Tomorrow, today. Whenever."

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