My Billionaire Ex Regrets Throwing Me to the Mafia Don novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: The Terminal
The man on the bench whistled low.
"No," I said.
Brent blinked at me.
"You didn't hear what it's worth."
"I know what it's worth. I built the spreadsheet."
"Then take it. It's the only thing I have that's actually yours."
"That's why I won't."
"For ten years you handed me things, Brent. A desk. A title. A ring you tossed to someone else first."
"I'm not taking anything from your hand again. Not even to be fair."
He stood there in the hallway with his sling and his red eyes.
"Then what do I do?"
"Go back to the hospital," I said. "Your surgeon wants you."
I left him there.
The board chair called me that afternoon, before I had my coat off in Carroll Gardens.
"The two biggest accounts walked this morning," she said. "They saw the gala. They saw the arrest."
"Haley's arrest should help you."
"It helped. It didn't help enough." She took a breath. "They don't want their freight moving on software owned by a Caruso."
I sat down on the stairs.
"What did the board do?"
"We voted at noon. We're ending the Lodestar license and moving to the other system."
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