You Divorced a Genius Heiress novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Demo Day
On the morning of the final round, our badges opened nothing.
The glass doors of the Authority's hall stood shut at seven, with a sixty-person line along the steps in the cold.
Jarrett's team had brought the rig in six trucks, and the lanyard kid sat on a flight case with his hands between his knees.
At eight-fifteen the Authority's chair walked down the steps from the street alone.
She was in the same blue jacket, and she carried a brass key as long as her hand.
"Maintenance," she said, to nobody. "It predates the badge system. I don't believe I've used it since the building opened."
She turned it in the lock, and the doors swung open on a hall full of electric light.
Desmond was already inside.
He stood on the stage in a midnight suit among a dozen of his own people.
One hand was in his pocket and the other rested on a gleaming rack.
He did not look at the steps.
"Aldridge Labs has been here since six," a staff member told the chair, in a low voice. "He said he was calibrating the access system."
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