His New Stepsister. His Biggest Threat. novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: The Clause
Gannon read the text over my shoulder.
He didn't swear.
He just got up off the wheelhouse floor and started looking for his shirt.
"I'm talking first," he said.
"You said that on Thursday."
"On Thursday it wasn't true yet. Well. It was. It wasn't on her desk."
At eleven on a Saturday the lot was half empty, and the executive producer's office was cold.
No lawyer this time. No promo producer.
Just her, in a grey sweater, and one sheet of glossy paper face down on the desk.
"Sit," she said.
We sat.
She turned the paper over.
It was me.
Coming down the gangway at dawn on Wednesday, hair wild, shoes in my hand, grinning like a woman who'd just been very thoroughly happy.
Behind me, the black hull and the red stack. Unmistakable.
I'd never seen my own face look like that.
"This arrived last night at eleven fifty-two," the producer said. "To my private email. Not the show's address. Mine."
"I know who sent it," I said.
"So do I, roughly. That's not the question." She looked at Gannon. "Mr. Boyle?"
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