The Bad-ass Heiress Returns After Divorce novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: What He Paid
The loading dock smelled of diesel and wet cardboard, and Talbot stood at the end of it with his hands in his jacket pockets.
He wore steel-toed boots, a canvas work coat, and the same fair hair he had always had, cut short.
A pickup with a Berrien Construction door decal sat idling behind him, with a ladder tied to the bed.
"You came down," he said.
"The board chair said you wanted nothing."
"That's true. I wanted to say a few things, and then I'm leaving."
"Say them."
He took a folded paper from his coat and did not hold it out yet.
"The firm filed to close this morning," he said. "My father signed it. He didn't want me to sit there and watch."
"Is he all right?"
"He's home, and his heart is fine. He sleeps now, which he hasn't done in a year."
"And your mother?"
"She went to my aunt's in Savannah and she hasn't picked up since the league meeting. I've called twice."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of The Bad-ass Heiress Returns After Divorce are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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