They Gave My Sister the Hotels, So I Stayed to Take Them Back novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: The Risk Officer
"Tell her I'll be there," I said.
"Ms. Bell, you don't have to..."
"Ten o'clock," I said. "I'll bring my own pen."
I hung up and buttoned my blouse with fingers that wouldn't quite work.
Noah watched me do it.
He didn't say anything about the garage, or the camera, or what we'd almost done.
He just reached over and fixed the button I'd missed.
The bank's boardroom was on the twelfth floor, long and gray, with a view of a freeway and a painting of a cattle drive.
My mother was already there.
She sat at the middle of the long table in a cream suit, pearls, her hands folded on a leather portfolio.
Damon's lawyer sat at her right, the one who'd tapped his watch at me in the courthouse.
Damon sat at the far end, in pale linen, with his legs crossed and nothing in front of him.
He'd come to watch.
Across from them sat the bank officer from the memorial, and beside him a woman in her fifties in a navy suit, with a tablet and no expression.
"I'm the bank's risk officer," she said. "Sit wherever you like."
I sat directly across from my mother.
Noah took the chair by the door, behind me, and folded his hands.
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