Fated to My Cruel CEO novel · Chapter 17 of 24

Chapter 17: The Offer

I went under the packing machine on my stomach.

The gap was eight inches high and smelled of oil and cardboard dust.

I reached as far as my arm would go, past a belt guard and a dead spider.

My fingers closed on something small and soft.

I came out with grease on my cheek and the half card in my fist.

Ansel was standing again.

He took it from my palm without a word, and his thumb moved over the torn edge once.

Then he put it in his breast pocket, next to his heart, because the ring had snapped.

The lawyer cleared his throat.

"Mr. Rhodes, the offer is eighty cents on the dollar for the loans, in cash by Monday. The papers are brief."

"No."

"You haven't read them."

"I don't have to."

"There is a confidentiality clause."

"I'm sure there is."

A voice rolled through the open dock doors.

"Let him read it. A man should know what he is refusing."

My father walked into the plant in a pressed grey suit and his church pin.

He came into church, slowly, nodding to people.

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