He Chose the MC Princess Over Me While I Was Secretly Pregnant With His Heir, Now He Wants Us Back novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: What Daddy Signed
The deputy took the folder from Joelle without a word and opened it on the end of the long table.
I stood up from behind the bar with Rafe's blood to my elbows.
Two of the line had taken over pressing the rag to his side, and the first ambulance siren was already climbing the county road.
Boone stayed at my shoulder with one hand on my back.
He had not stopped touching me since the shot.
"Joelle," Amos said from the shelves, where two men still held his arms. "Whatever that is, put it down."
"Page four, Daddy."
She did not raise her voice.
She walked to the table and put her finger on the page, and she turned it so the deputy could read it.
"This is the deed your lawyer drew up in August. It puts the clubhouse, the mill and all hundred twenty acres in your name the day Boone dies without a child.
"Not mine. Yours."
"That's a draft," Amos said.
"It's dated and signed. It's in your own safe, under the title for the Ford." She turned to the line. "You all remember the agreement I showed Lena at Birdie's? The one that made me the heir?"
Nobody answered.
"That one was never filed. He had me sign it so I would swear in front of anyone who asked that the land would be mine, and I would stand on the seat and look like a woman who had something to hold.
"I was a prop. I have been a prop since I was seventeen."
She said it flat.
I watched her and found, to my surprise, that I did not enjoy it.
Joelle had held my seat.
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