Seven Men Called Me Her Stand-In, So I Made Them Pay novel · Chapter 7 of 24

Chapter 7: Heart and Soul

On Sunday morning I came out of my mother's room and heard five men shouting in the family lounge.

I stopped in the corridor, behind a pillar, with a paper cup in each hand.

"You've been lying to us since yesterday," said the pianist.

"I've been doing my job," said the surgeon.

"You looked at that woman's chart and your face went white," said the architect. "I saw it on the security tape."

"You watched hospital security tape?"

"I design hospitals. I know the guy who runs the cameras."

Anthony stood by the window with his arms folded and said nothing.

The senator's son paced between the sofas. He was the one who had called the bank on Saturday morning.

"I'm not apologizing for the freeze," he said. "Seven men don't give away three million dollars to a stranger because she looks like a ghost."

"She wasn't a stranger," said the driver.

"She was a bookkeeper from Ohio."

"No," said the driver. "She was somebody who knew things only Tessa knew."

The room went quiet.

"Say it plainly," the senator's son said. "What are you saying?"

"I'm saying she's somebody's friend. Somebody who sat with Tessa and heard everything. The watch in the sock drawer. The window. I never told anyone about the watch except one person, in the gatehouse kitchen, in July."

"So find the friend," the pianist said. "Find where Tessa went."

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