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Chapter 15: The Roof of the Old Garage

Jerome's POV

I let Gregory's call ring out twice before I answered.

"The garage in Whitehall," my brother said. "The roof. Come alone, or don't come."

Maisie had heard every word.

"Go," she said, and got out of the car at her father's curb with the wrench in her hand. "I'll have the door locked. I don't need you to stand on my porch."

She didn't look back.

I drove to Whitehall and parked in front of the old brick shop where our fathers had started.

The roof was where I was supposed to meet him, and I wasn't ready.

I took out my phone and found the nine minutes.

I had never played the first part, the part Frank had told Maisie to skip.

I put in one earbud.

"Jerome," Frank's voice said, rasping. "I owe you an apology about the vote."

I shut my eyes.

"Nine years ago Odile came to my kitchen with a folder. Maisie was in dental hygiene school, twenty years old. The folder had her class schedule, her apartment and her car. Odile said if I backed you on the board, she would open my trust in front of every director and every lawyer."

He coughed.

"She'd have known where the shares were, and who held them, and who the girl was. So I sat on my hands. I traded your seat for my daughter's quiet life."

I had stopped breathing.

"That was wrong, son. A man shouldn't trade another man for a girl, even his own. I've had nine years to say it and I'm saying it now. I'm sorry. Keep an eye on her. I know you will."

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