Darker Shades of Elise novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Out
I did not press play.
I held the phone face down against my thigh.
A hundred people in the hallway were looking at their own screens.
Then, one by one, they looked up at me.
It was the oldest kind of silence, the kind a stage gets when an actor forgets the line.
I knew what to do with it.
"Excuse me," I said, and walked out of the boardroom through the middle of them.
Nobody spoke, and nobody blocked the way.
The sales manager put her hand flat on my shoulder as I passed, and left it there until I was gone.
Ansel was standing in the lobby with his phone lit in one fist.
His face was the color of old paper.
"Felicity, he sent it to the whole town."
"The school list, the church list, the chamber of commerce."
"Thirty seconds."
"Which thirty seconds?"
"It doesn't matter," he said. "I'm not showing you."
"Then I'm not watching," I said.
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