The Phoenix's Rebirth for Revenge novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: Father's Turn
The launch pulled away with its blue light turning.
My mother sat in the stern between the two officers and didn't look back again.
I stood at the end of the dock with the red cord still in my fist until Ambrose took my other hand.
"Don't," he said.
"Don't what?"
"Don't let her pick the last line."
I looked at him.
"She knew I'd chew on it," I said.
"Then chew on it in front of him," he said. "Not alone."
Gran called the board for nine on Monday morning.
She didn't come.
"My heart doctor says no boardrooms for a month," she told me at breakfast, and slid an envelope across the island. "So you're me."
Inside was her proxy, signed in her spiky hand, for all forty percent.
The boardroom at Haverhill Marine was on the second floor of the old office, with a long window over the yard.
You could see the dock from it.
You could see the empty slip where the demo cruiser had been, before the police towed it away as evidence.
Seven people sat around the table.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of The Phoenix's Rebirth for Revenge are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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