The Billionaire's Fight for Redemption Starts at Five A.M. novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: The Officer

Cal read the bold line twice and folded the letter along its crease.

"I'll tell them I chased you," he said. "I'll say you told me no and I kept coming."

"You will not."

"It's close enough to true."

"It's a lie, and I won't have it put in my mouth."

He stood in the red light from the exit sign with his shirt half buttoned.

"If they pull the supervision, the hours could stop counting."

"Then they stop."

"A hundred of them, Dee."

"I know how many there are. I wrote every one."

I took the clipboard off the desk and held it against my chest.

"She'll ask me a direct question, and I'll give her a direct answer."

"And if she takes the gym's name off the list?"

That one landed, and I let it.

"Then Frank and I run the junior class like we did before you," I said. "Go upstairs. I'll be up in a minute."

He went, and I stood alone with the sheet.

On Thursday he drove east to see the maintenance lead.

He came back at nine with his jaw set.

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