After Seeing the Comments, I Forced the Male Lead to Love Me novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Part Two
Tobias looked at the pen.
Then he took the cream paper in his other hand and held it up to the light.
"Aunt Rosalind," he said. "Whose signature is this?"
"Yours, dear. Drawn up with your lawyer."
"It is ruler-straight."
"Is it?" She laughed, a little too brightly. "You do write neatly."
"I do not," Tobias said. "My signature climbs uphill. It has since I was nine."
He uncapped the pen and signed on the line beside hers.
The new name climbed across the page like a ladder.
He turned the sheet and held it up to seventy guests.
"Two signatures," he said. "One of them is a forgery, and I would like the board to guess which."
Nobody breathed.
"This is absurd," said Rosalind. "Tobias, you are making a scene."
"I am. You taught me how."
At the service door, Dennis stepped forward.
"Mr. Renner. May I?"
"Please."
The screen behind Rosalind flickered, and the pond photographs vanished.
In their place was a hallway at 2:41 on a Tuesday afternoon.
A woman in a gray cardigan walked up the corridor with a velvet pouch in her hand.
She opened Hallie's bedroom door and went in.
She came out a moment later with her hands empty.
The hall was silent. Every head turned to Rosalind, who was wearing a gray cardigan under her dove-grey jacket, as it happened. She wears it when she feels cold.
"That could be anyone," she said.
"It is you, Aunt," said Tobias. "There is a camera on the landing. Dennis put it up the week you started leaving my door ajar."
"I was returning a scarf!"
"You told us that already," Pearl said from the head of the table. "You did not mention the pouch had my emeralds in it."
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