My Husband Framed Me. I Took It All. novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Umbrella
"Carter, sit down," Chloe said a second time.
He stayed on his feet.
"In June, in Michigan, on a Friday," she said. "You thought I was visiting a friend in Ann Arbor."
"You said you loved me."
"I said what you needed to hear, and you needed it every Thursday."
Nobody at that table breathed.
Carter's lawyer in the camel coat studied the walnut.
Chloe looked at her small gold watch.
"It's ten past ten. Your key card stopped working at nine."
"What?"
"The audit those investors demanded gave Lars's seat the power to suspend the managing partner."
"I'm Lars's seat now. I used it this morning."
She pushed a cardboard box across the table with two fingers.
It held his stapler, a framed golf photograph and his reading glasses.
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