Fake Names with Me Love Bombs for Her? Screw This Secret CEO Wife Is Done novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: Under Her Own Name

Odile did not run.

She stood at the edge of the stage with her handbag on her arm and looked at the detective's badge.

"On what charge?" she said.

"Conspiracy to commit abuse of a corpse," the detective said. "Burglary, bribery of a public caretaker, and forgery. We executed a warrant at your home an hour ago."

"My lawyers will be furious."

"Your driver is already talking."

Something moved in Odile's face then, for the first time.

"He wouldn't," she said.

"The watch was in the safe in your study," the detective said. "He opened it for us himself."

I stood very still.

A young officer came forward with a clear evidence bag, and in it was a cheap steel watch with a cracked glass.

The crack ran from twelve to four.

I knew it from across the stage.

"That's my father's," I said.

"It'll be held until the trial, ma'am," the detective said. "I'm sorry. You'll get it back."

I nodded because I couldn't do anything else.

Two officers took Odile by the arms, and the second one brought out the handcuffs.

"Please," Odile said, and the warm voice finally broke. "I'm sixty-two years old. I'm the chair of this company."

"You were the chair," the gray-haired board member said from the dais.

She wasn't loud about it.

"Mrs. Werner, you've been removed as chair as of this minute, by the unanimous vote of the independent directors. Mr. Werner is suspended as chief executive pending the investigation."

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