Betrayed, I Rise novel · Chapter 30 of 32
Chapter 30: Let Go
"Heron Point Holdings is me," my father said.
He didn't use the microphone.
He didn't need it. Nobody in the room was breathing.
He opened the file on the table in front of the chair of the board.
"Last fall I bought four waterfront lots in Salt Creek," he said. "Around the Hatcher boatyard. Under that name. With my own money."
"An ice house. A net shed. A closed fish plant. An empty lot."
He turned the pages one by one so the chair could see them.
"The company would have paid me the difference. I did that to every one of you."
He looked down the table at the cousins, the funds, the board.
"And to my wife's trust. And to my daughter."
One of the investors said something under his breath that I won't repeat.
My father didn't flinch.
"Mr. Benedetti knew in March," he said. "He never went to the board. He sold his silence, one piece at a time."
"A title. A seat. My daughter. Her mother's ring."
In the front row, Skylar closed her left hand into a fist.
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