Don, Your Regret Can't Keep Me novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: Her Price
Annette lowered the shears about an inch.
"Did she just say sell?"
"She said sell," I said.
Gabriella came in and let the door swing shut behind her.
She looked at the rack of six gowns with nobody's name on them anymore.
"He did that this morning," she said. "I heard him on the phone at breakfast. He called it starving the cat."
"I'm not a cat."
"You're the one thing on Passyunk he can't get rid of." She sat down on my fitting box without asking. "So am I, now."
I got up and put my order book on the counter.
I laid my phone on top of it, face down.
Before I set it down, I touched the red button on the voice memo.
Annette saw.
She leaned on the counter so her elbow covered it.
"Talk," I said.
Gabriella folded her sunglasses.
Up close her eyes were swollen, and there was a yellow bruise on her wrist under a smear of concealer.
She saw me see it and pulled her hand into her lap.
"The agents came to my door in January," she said. "Two of them. They said lying to a federal agent is five years. They said they'd think about it."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Don, Your Regret Can't Keep Me are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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