Dumping My Ex For His Uncle novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: The Gala
"She can't," I said. "She's going to stand up in front of three hundred people and give away money to protect orphans' trusts?"
"She's done it for thirty years," Bram said. "Just never with a slogan."
I sat up in the bed.
"Then we go," I said.
He looked at me for a long time.
"In front of everybody?"
"That's how I do things now."
We had two days.
Tilly's lawyer spent them on the phone with the state's attorney's office.
Bram spent them at the counter with his reading glasses on, putting everything in order on the old invoice laptop.
The wire.
The real log next to the court's log.
The investigator's last page, which had come in on Thursday.
The week the six hundred thousand hit the firm's account, it went straight back out again, as a partner distribution, to Ellis Clagett.
Getting in was the problem.
Tickets were a thousand dollars each, and Joan's name was on the door list.
On Saturday morning, my phone rang with a number I didn't know.
"Ms. Mahan?" A woman's voice, older, careful. "This is the front desk at Clagett and Clagett. Well. I was."
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