This Time, I'll Be the Villain's Favorite Daughter novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: The Vote

The boardroom of Ainsworth Holdings was on the sixtieth floor.

It had a table so long that Mabel couldn't see the far end without leaning.

She had been in this room once before, in her first life.

She was twelve, and she had come to bring her father a folder he'd forgotten.

He'd taken it without looking at her and told the receptionist to make sure she found the elevator.

This time, the trustee held the door open for her.

"Miss Tully," he said, and bowed his white eyebrows a little. "Your seat."

He had called the house on Sunday.

He'd asked Fern if Mabel would like to come and watch the meeting, "since it concerns her grandfather's company, and her."

Fern had asked Mabel.

Mabel had said yes before Fern finished the question.

Now she sat in a big leather chair at the trustee's right hand, in her school sweater and her red coat.

Her feet didn't touch the floor.

Fern and Hank sat in two chairs against the window behind her.

Hank had worn a tie.

It was the most boring tie Mabel had ever seen.

Down both sides of the long table sat the board, in dark suits, with water glasses and leather folders.

Along the walls stood the executives.

Twenty of them at least, the people who ran Trenton's company for him, called up from their offices to witness.

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