I Logged In As The CEO's Mother And Crushed His Favorite Girl novel · Chapter 8 of 24

Chapter 8: Until Morning

I laughed.

It came out cold, from somewhere low in this old body, and it made Chase straighten up.

"Something funny?"

"You want me to pay eight billion dollars," I said, "so you'll agree to marry a woman you sent into a thunderstorm."

"I didn't send her. She went."

"Brielle sent her."

"Brielle passed on an assignment."

"Brielle cut up her wedding dress last night."

He didn't even blink.

"That's insane. Brielle wouldn't."

"With your key card."

That landed. Just for a second, something moved in his face.

Then it closed again.

"I give her my card all the time. She runs my life. She picks up my dry cleaning, Mom. If somebody used it, it wasn't her."

Holly was sitting very straight across the table.

She hadn't said a word since he walked in.

Now she slid her engagement ring off her finger.

It was a big square diamond that had never once fit her. She'd wrapped tape around the band in the first week.

She set it on the table next to the chicken.

"You don't have to marry me, Chase," she said. "And you definitely don't get eight billion dollars for doing me the favor."

He looked at the ring. Then at her, for the first time all night.

"This isn't your call."

"It's my finger."

The housekeeper made a sound into her napkin.

Chase's face went red.

"Do you understand what happens if this wedding doesn't go through? Your father's company is bleeding. The merger is the only thing keeping it alive. You'll go home to nothing."

"Then I'll go home to nothing," Holly said.

Her hands were shaking under the table.

Her voice wasn't.

I wanted to stand up and cheer.

Instead I said, "Would you two give us a minute?"

Holly picked up her plate and walked out.

The housekeeper followed her and shut the kitchen door.

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