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Chapter 68: The Pieces Fall
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Not The Man She Wanted Chapter 113: Megan As Owner
The board meeting was at nine on a Thursday morning.My mother wore the gray coat.I had suggested she might want something more formal, something that read as boardroom rather than winter coat, and she had looked at me with the expression she reserved for suggestions she found unnecessary."This coat," she said, "has been in more consequential rooms than any of those people have.""Fair," I said."I will wear what I wore to Joseph's funeral and to the witness stand and to Alvin Alejandro's sitting room when I told him I knew who he was." She buttoned the top button. "If that is not the right coat for a board meeting, I do not know what is."Harry drove us.In the truck. Not a company car. My mother had declined the company car Renata had arranged, saying she did not want to start as she did not intend to go on, and when Renata had asked how she intended to go on, she had said like myself.We pulled up to the Royal Gold Mine building on Peachtree at eight fifty.The same building. The
Not The Man She Wanted Chapter 112: The Civil Suit
The settlement came on a Tuesday.Renata called at eight forty-seven in the morning, the same time she had called when the divorce was finalized, the same time she had called about the bail, which made me think she was a woman who did her most significant work before nine and I respected that."They settled," she said.I was at the lake house kitchen table. Jo was in the carrier. Harry was at the window with his coffee."When did they agree?" I said."Last night. Fabiola's board voted at eleven p.m. His lawyers called mine at midnight. The paperwork was executed by four this morning.""Four in the morning.""They wanted it done before the markets opened," Renata said. "Smart. The stock opened up three points.""What are the terms?"A pause."Jenny, I need you to sit down.""I am sitting down.""Is your mother there?""She is at Clement Street. Should I call her?""Yes," Renata said. "Call her and put her on speaker. She needs to hear this at the same time you do."I called my mother.
Not The Man She Wanted Chapter 111: The Aftermath
The lake house was Harry's mother's idea.Not literally. She had been dead for twenty-two years and had never known the house existed. But Harry had bought it four years ago with money his mother had left him in a trust that had matured when he turned thirty, and he had furnished it with the same spare honesty he furnished everything, and he had told me once, on a phone call at eleven thirty from a warehouse in Atlanta, that it was the only place he had ever been able to think without hearing his father's voice in the architecture.We drove there the morning after the verdict.The press had found the warehouse address by seven a.m. Three vehicles on Holt Street by the time Harry looked out the window. He had looked at me across the kitchen table with Jo between us and said, "Lake house," and I had said, "Yes," and we had packed in forty minutes.The house was two hours north of Atlanta, on a lake I had not heard of before Harry described it, in a part of Georgia that had not been orga
Not The Man She Wanted Chapter 110: The Verdict
The jury went out on a Thursday.They came back on a Monday.Three days of deliberation for a case that had taken six years to build and seventeen days to present. Renata had said three days was neither good nor bad, that it meant the jury was being thorough rather than confused, that thorough was what you wanted.I had not slept well on any of the three nights.Harry had not slept at all.The call came at eleven fourteen on Monday morning.I was at the kitchen table with Jo, who was four and a half months old and had recently discovered that if she made a specific sound I would pick her up, and was deploying this discovery with the systematic enthusiasm of a scientist who has identified a reliable variable.My phone rang.Renata."They are back," she said."When?""One o'clock. Can you be there?""Yes.""Jenny.""Yes.""Whatever happens in that room," she said, "you have already done the thing. The testimony is in. The evidence is in. The truth is in the record permanently regardless
Not The Man She Wanted Chapter 109:Fabiola Testifies
The prosecution called Fabiola on the seventeenth day.He had known it was coming. Renata had told him two weeks before. He had spent those two weeks the way he spent everything now, quietly and without announcement, preparing in whatever room he was in rather than making the preparation visible.He walked to the stand in a plain dark suit.No tie.He sat down.He looked at the prosecutor, a woman named Agent Carla Webb who had been building federal cases for nineteen years and had the specific economy of movement of someone who did not waste anything in a courtroom.He did not look at his father.Not yet."Mr. Alejandro," Webb said, "you served as managing director of Royal Gold Mine for eleven years, correct?""Yes," Fabiola said."And in that capacity you had access to internal financial records, operational decisions, and communications at the executive level?""Yes.""Did you, at any point during those eleven years, have knowledge of financial transactions routed through the comp
Not The Man She Wanted Chapter 108: The Trial Begins
The trial began on a Monday in March.Jo was four months old. She stayed with my mother on the days I was in court, which was every day. I had told Harry I was going to attend every session and he had not argued, which was how I knew he had expected it."You do not have to be there every day," Renata had said, the week before."Yes I do," I said."It will be difficult. Some of the testimony...""I know what the testimony will be," I said. "I have been living inside this case for sixteen months. I am not going to sit at home while it is said out loud in a room."She had looked at me for a moment."Front row?" she said."Front row," I said.The courtroom was full every day.The press had their section. The public gallery filled within twenty minutes of the doors opening each morning. Celestine Park was there on day one with her notepad and the focused expression of a woman who had been right about something for a long time and was watching it confirmed in real time.Alvin sat at the def
Not The Man She Wanted chapter 4 The Twist
"Hey, watch your steps. Have you suddenly gone blind?” Fabiola yelled at Jenny for hitting him accidentally after she dashed out of Alvin's office angrily. "Speak of the ruthless devil. Bullshit,” Jenny hissed angrily and motioned for her duty post before Fabiola could counter her words. "What
Not The Man She Wanted chapter 3 The Deal
“Mom, what's happening? Why is no one talking to me?” At that moment, she was gradually losing it. Josh wasn't ready to disclose either. The situation was way beyond him. He remained mute, planning how to select his words carefully so as not to get Jenny more upset."It's fine. I'll do the talkin
Not The Man She Wanted chapter 2 The Culprit
"This is hard to believe. Are you sure you brought the check to this bank? I don't even know what to believe anymore. None of this ever makes sense to me.” Connard questioned Josh's claims about the missing check. For months, Alvin has been making massive transactions with Ozone Bank, and not once
Not The Man She Wanted chapter 1 The Theft
The rising sun cast a rosy hue across the morning sky The Theft.The rising sun cast a rosy hue across the morning sky as the chorus of melodic birdsong drifted in. "Where are you at, Fabiola? You're going to be late for work. I'm ready; let's go together.” Alvin, Fabiola's father, stood in front
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