On Halloween, My Husband Bet I'd Never Leave Him, So I Stopped Waiting novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: The Keys

"Sit down, Diana," Russell said. "I'll fix this."

"Fix it how?" She did not sit. "You told me the house was mine whatever happened."

"The house is yours."

"The house belongs to the company," the board chairman said, to the table. "I approved it myself as an executive retreat, and I signed where Russell showed me."

Russell turned on him.

"You signed it knowing what it was for."

"I signed it believing the company was yours," the chairman said. "It was not."

I had not spoken since Calvin finished reading.

My hands were flat on the table, and they were quiet.

"Russell," I said. "The chairman showed me your memo. All-hands at two today."

He stared at me, and he understood that the chairman had told me everything.

"You're not coming," he said.

"I'm coming."

At two o'clock the atrium of Kincaid Freight was full.

Drivers in work jackets stood beside accountants, and dispatchers leaned over the second-floor rail.

Russell stood on the staircase with a microphone, in a fresh shirt.

Diana stood beside him in white, and she held a ring of keys in her fist.

"My wife has been misled by a lawyer with a grudge," he was saying. "Nothing changes in this building."

I came through the glass doors with Gwen on one side and the board chairman on the other.

The room turned to look at us.

I climbed the stairs, and I stopped two steps below him.

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