The Stand-In Bride Refusal novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Press Line
"Don't go out there," said the board's counsel. "Let us draft something."
We stood in the private elevator lobby of the forty-eighth floor.
On the screen above the buttons, a news anchor read from a script.
"Documents obtained by this station show that Rowan Verran paid two million dollars for control of a trust."
"The beneficiary of that trust is his own bride."
The picture cut to a photograph of Rowan's yellow note.
Trust file. The heir is Willa Larkin, and her stepmother is selling the vote.
"Where did they get that?" Rowan said.
"From someone with the trustee's files," said Mrs. Verran.
She had followed us in her chair, and her mouth was a thin line.
"Which means Constance."
"Which means Constance is still working for Tobias," I said.
The counsel cleared her throat.
"Mrs. Verran, my advice as the company's lawyer is a short statement tomorrow, written, with no questions."
"Tomorrow they will have decided what I am," I said.
"Willa," Rowan said.
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