I Married a Stranger to Ruin Them novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: Stolen
The whole open house went quiet.
The kids behind the rope stopped screaming.
Ian smiled into the nearest camera, sad and brave.
"Glasshouse is LUMEN in a new bottle," he said. "Alice developed that formula on company time, with company money, in a company lab. Then she walked out the door with it in her head and sold it in a barn."
A reporter turned her microphone toward me.
"Ms. Merrin? Any response?"
Behind me, Matt came out of the shop and stopped three feet from my left shoulder.
He didn't have a punty this time.
He didn't need one.
"Give me two minutes," I said to the reporter. "Carrie, can you bring the boxes from the closet? The four in the corner. And the black notebooks."
Carrie was already running.
His mother looked at me, then at her pierogi table under the willow.
She picked up both trays and handed them to the nearest crewman.
"Here," she said. "Put your evidence on that."
The crew carried the four cardboard boxes from Lawrenceville out into the sun and set them on the table.
Carrie came behind them with the black notebooks in her arms, nine of them now, stacked to her chin.
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