Seven Men Called Me Her Stand-In, So I Made Them Pay novel · Chapter 10 of 24

Chapter 10: Anthony's Seven Years

Anthony's POV

I sat in my car on level three of the hospital garage and watched my jaw swell in the rearview mirror.

I had been hit before. This was the first time I had felt it landing in the right place.

For seven years I had run through every way she might find out. In all of them she looked at me with contempt and walked away.

Nobody had told me she would put her whole arm behind it.

The passenger door opened and the hotel heir got in without asking.

He had always done that, since we were fifteen. He sat in the seat and told me what the plan was.

Today he said nothing.

He looked at the dashboard for a long time, and I let him.

"Did you know what my mother did?" he said finally.

"I had a guess."

"Since when?"

"Since that Sunday," I said. "My father had my retraction typed before I sat down. Nobody types a retraction for a mistake that fast."

"You're a lawyer. You should have said so."

"I was twenty-six," I said. "I thought it was wrong, and I signed anyway."

The heir rubbed his forehead with both hands.

"She called me this morning," he said. "She asked if you'd all gone somewhere together. I told her Boston. I said the hospital."

I turned my head.

"She asked if the housekeeper's daughter was with you. I said I had no idea who she meant." He met my eyes, and his were red. "I swear I didn't. Then I walked into that lounge."

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