Limited Love novel · Chapter 9 of 24

Chapter 9: Thirty Days

I did not wait for the elevator.

I took the stairs up eleven floors with the bank's letter in my hand, and I came through the door of the forty-first floor without knocking.

It was the open floor, sixty desks under a glass ceiling.

Chadwick stood at the far end with a group of vice presidents, a tablet in his hand, mid-sentence.

He saw me and stopped talking.

The whole floor went quiet from the back forward.

"Eileen?"

I crossed the carpet in the silver heels I had worn all day.

I stopped in front of him and held up the letter.

"Call the loan back," I said. "Now. Today, before my father has to answer it."

He took the page from my hand.

I watched his eyes move down it.

I watched him get to the second paragraph, and the figure, and the signature line.

His face went white.

"I didn't sign this."

"It says Higginson Holdings, authorized by G. Higginson."

"I know what it says." He looked up. "Eileen, I did not do this."

"Clause nine," I said. "If I leave you, the loan comes due."

It came out before I could stop it.

He frowned, hard.

"You didn't leave. You were in my bed on Tuesday."

Somewhere behind me, a chair creaked.

"I was in your kitchen," I said. "On a napkin I wrote that it didn't mean anything."

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