Her Broke Handyman Husband Was the Secret Billionaire novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Even
"Even for what?" Elias said again, quieter.
"Tuesday morning," I said. "The boardroom. Landon read a letter out loud and passed it down the table."
His hand tightened on the petition.
"There was a line at the bottom in block capitals," I said. "The E had a slash through it."
"Kasey."
"You slash your E. You cross your sevens. I've got forty-one of your sticky notes on our refrigerator."
He looked at the sodium lights, then at the pen, then back at me.
"Five days," he said.
"Five days."
"Alma," he said, as if the name were a stone he had stepped on.
"Alma came to dinner with a casserole to make sure. She wasn't allowed to tell you. I asked her not to."
"You asked her."
"I wanted to see how long you'd take."
The wind pushed a paper cup across the loading yard.
"I said no to you at that table," he said slowly. "That was the lie."
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