Was the Heiress Switched at Birth? novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The Shredder
"She's calling the executive floor in at eight," Piers said on the phone.
"There's a statement, and seven names have to be under it."
"Mine is first."
It was ten past midnight, and I was still standing in my mother's dark front room with the recording looping in my hand.
"Are you going to sign it?" I asked.
"Bring your machine," he said.
"Come and watch."
At eight the next morning the fortieth floor smelled of coffee and fear.
Nine executives stood around a glass table in the long room that looked down on South Tryon Street.
Phones buzzed in every pocket.
Cordelia sat at the head in charcoal with her pearls on.
She had not slept either, and she wore it.
I took a chair against the wall, opened my case and put my fingers on the keys.
Nobody told me to leave.
The general counsel slid a single page down the table.
"The statement is short," she said.
"The recording was obtained without consent from a seriously ill woman."
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