A Superpowered Warrior in the Body of a Fake Heiress novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: Removed

For a moment the ballroom made no sound at all.

Then every phone in the room came up.

"Turn that off," Gordon said, and ripped the microphone out of Lorna's hand. "My daughter has had a shock. She doesn't know what she's saying."

"She said she watched her die," said the investor in the second row.

"She is hysterical."

"She's twenty-one and she's been telling the truth the entire time," the man said. "Mr. Haglund, I want my four hundred million wired back by morning."

"That is not how a contract works."

"It's how my lawyers read page nine."

A woman by the window was already on her phone, saying "Halt it, halt the whole position" in a low voice.

Another man stood, and then a table of six.

They began to walk out.

"Sit down," Gordon said. "Sit down. This is a misunderstanding."

Nobody sat.

By the time the doors had swung shut behind the fourth table, half the room had gone.

Gordon stood alone on the dais with the microphone in his fist.

"You," he said.

He was looking at Kerensa.

He came down the steps and across the dance floor, shoving a chair out of his way.

He was forty feet from her, then thirty, and his face was purple.

"You did this. You walked into my house and you took everything."

"Dad," Ward said.

Ward had stepped into the aisle.

He was not a small man, and he stood in front of his father with his hands open at his sides.

"Get out of my way, Ward."

"No."

"I said move."

"No, Dad." Ward's voice shook, and he did not step back. "You hit her. You'd have hit Mom in a police station. I'm done being the one who looks at the floor."

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