Billionaire's Match novel · Chapter 6 of 24

Chapter 6: Broadcast

She signed at four in the afternoon, in the library with the fire lit.

Elliot signed under her name with a plain black pen. His handwriting was small and square.

"The announcement is at eight," he said. "It goes out live on the evening news."

"Tonight?"

"The Strathern side asked for it. They want the other families to hear it from us first."

Brittany capped the pen.

"I need to pick up my things before eight."

He looked at her for a moment. "I'll send the car."

The villa was empty when she let herself in.

Dalton was at his board meeting. Celia had taken Teddy to his music class, and the housekeeper had gone to the market.

Brittany packed in twenty minutes.

Two suitcases, her mother's cracked photograph, the grey coat, her laptop and the folder of papers from the study.

She left everything else.

On the dining table, she set down the two halves of the forged certificate.

She had stopped taping them together. She laid them side by side with the torn edge showing.

She did not leave a note.

The press hall downtown was white and cold and full of cameras.

A stylist pinned Brittany's hair over the stitches. A woman in black handed her a glass of water and a card with three lines on it.

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