He Sent Me Overseas to Marry Her, I'm Staying Overseas to Never See Him Again novel · Chapter 27 of 32

Chapter 27: The Offer

The crew had gone quiet around me in the lobby.

They could see my face.

"Hold on," I said into the phone. "Can I put you on speaker? My partners are here."

A pause.

"Your partners."

"Eleven of them. And Zoe."

I didn't wait for him to agree.

I put the phone flat on the lid of the nearest trunk.

The crew came in close around it, in their creased best clothes, with their coffee cups.

Peggy leaned on Oliver's arm and looked at the phone over her glasses.

"Say it again," I said. "For them."

The chairman cleared his throat.

"Pierce Garland has been suspended. The board would like Ms. Kendrick to return to New York as chief executive of Garland Travel Goods."

The girl apprentice put her hand over her mouth.

Zoe grabbed my sleeve.

Oliver didn't move at all.

He was looking at the floor, very carefully.

I looked at the rows of trunks.

At the brass corners the boy had polished with his sleeve.

At the lid the girl had finished at midnight.

"No," I said.

The phone was silent.

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