When I Flash Married a Billionaire novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Hearing
The commission met in a council chamber with a horseshoe of oak desks and a public gallery that was already packed to the doors.
Dexter stood at the center lectern in a fresh cream turtleneck, with the round glasses on and a clicker in his hand.
He was forty minutes into a ten-minute slot, and nobody had cut him off.
"I'm here, madam chair, to correct a record that has been poisoned by a personal grievance," he said.
"My former fiancee is a talented but unstable young woman.
"The roof was a collaboration.
"I gave her the concept, on a porch, in August, and she has built a story around it for sympathy."
He clicked.
The gull wing filled the screen behind him, with a new title in a new typeface.
LANDRY ASSOCIATES.
"I registered my own studio on Saturday," he said. "I present today as an independent architect."
The chair, a white-haired woman with an engineer's hands, said nothing at all.
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