Dumping My Ex For His Uncle novel · Chapter 28 of 32
Chapter 28: The Hall of Records
Joan didn't answer him.
She looked at the phone in the lawyer's hand.
Then she looked at her brother, all the way up.
The doorman held the ballroom door for her.
She went through it without a coat, into the cold.
A black car pulled up to the curb.
Behind us, the giant check still stood on its easel with the blank line.
The older receptionist came down off the stage with her laptop under her arm.
"Well," she said to me. "That's my last gala."
"Thank you."
"Don't." She patted my arm. "I've been typing that woman's fee letters since before you were born. I just wanted to see the screen once with the right numbers on it."
The examiner's report was nine pages long.
Bram read me the last line in bed that night.
The signature on the release was not written by Bram Keefer, and the letterforms matched known samples of the trustee's own hand.
Her own insurer had paid for that sentence.
Christmas came, and Tilly hung a crab ornament on the shop's fake tree and a tug ornament next to it.
On January twelfth, Ellis Clagett walked into a criminal courtroom downtown.
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