Betrayed by My Husband, Taken by His Billionaire Uncle novel · Chapter 31 of 32
Chapter 31: Midnight on Central
"An outsider," August said. "Who?"
"The woman who's run the airport for twelve years." Truman buttered his toast like it had insulted him. "Never set foot in a mill. Never played a round of golf with any of them. She asked me three questions about the pension fund before she asked one about the salary."
"And you like her."
"I can't stand her. She's perfect." He pointed his knife at August. "She'll keep the Mill. She'll read the consulting line. And nobody has to have a baby for her."
August laughed.
I watched his shoulders come down an inch, for the first time since I'd met him.
"Merry Christmas, son," Truman said.
"Merry Christmas, Dad."
Annabeth wiped her eyes with her napkin and pretended it was the pepper.
The week after Christmas went by in sawdust.
August held the ladder.
Annabeth and I sanded the pine floors upstairs and found my mother's initials scratched into the wood under the front window, with a little crooked heart.
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