True Heiress Never Lies! novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Cost
The boardroom of Hartley Lakes Freight was on the thirty-first floor.
One whole wall was glass, and beyond it the lake lay flat and gray under a low sky.
My father stood outside the double doors with his hand on the brass.
It was shaking.
"You don't have to come in," he said.
"You asked me to."
"I know. I'm asking you to say no."
"I'm not going to say no."
He nodded, and I could see that he had hoped I would.
I carried the cardboard under my arm.
My grandmother had stayed home with Peter, and the officer's bag with the boot box had gone to the county.
Inside, nine people sat around a table the length of a boat.
I knew the chairman from every Christmas of my childhood.
He was seventy, with a white mustache, and he had once taught me to play gin rummy on a ferry.
He did not look at me now.
He had a tablet in front of him, and on it a video was playing without sound.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of True Heiress Never Lies! are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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