My Fiancé Chose My Brother, So I Chose My Brother's Best Friend novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: Burn This

"That's out of context," Hugh said.

His voice was perfectly steady.

"It's one line from a longer exchange, and Merc knows how Spencer's father writes to me. We joke."

"Do you joke about burning things?" the board member on the left asked.

He was the one who had given me the pen.

Hugh turned to him with his open, reasonable face.

"I'll show you the whole thread in New York."

"I'd like to see it now."

"It's on my other phone."

"Then I'd like to see the one in his hand," the man said.

Rhys held the screen out.

The older man took it, put on his glasses and read it in silence.

His colleague read over his shoulder.

When they looked up, neither of them looked at Hugh.

They looked at me.

"Seven months," the man on the right said. "Your sister was getting dressed for that ballroom, and you had known for seven months."

"I was protecting the firm."

"From a bride?"

"From fourteen million dollars of Dad's debt." Hugh's voice rose for the first time. "Do any of you remember what the bank said four years ago? I saved Cadwalader Marine. I did it alone. Nobody thanked me, and nobody in this lobby has a right to stand here and judge what it cost."

"It cost Estelle her wedding," Rhys said.

"It cost her one man she didn't love."

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