The Discarded Heiress Returns novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: The Paddle
I smiled back at her.
It cost me something, but I did it.
A clerk at the end of our row handed out the paddles.
Mine was white like hers, with a black nine on it.
Wells looked at it and laughed under his breath.
"Room nine," he said. "I'll take that as a sign."
"It's a number on a stick."
"So's a key."
The creditor sat two rows ahead of us in a seersucker suit.
His bank's letter was folded in my bag.
It said his bank would carry the rest of the price, up to forty-one million dollars, and not one dollar more.
He turned around in his chair, found me and nodded once.
My mother had three men around her.
The gray man from Charlotte sat on her right.
A heavy man from Birmingham and a thin one from the Atlanta pension fund sat behind her.
Two men from the chain sat across the aisle with their tape measure on the chair between them.
Along the walls, the hotel's staff stood in their uniforms.
The pastry chef still had flour on her sleeves.
The doorman had left his post for it, and he never left his post.
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