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Chapter 168: The evidence.

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Evelyn POV

The board members filed out one by one, each pausing briefly to shake my hand or offer a few parting words of encouragement on their way to the door.

Lilian Hart squeezed my arm and told me she was proud of me. Gerald King nodded stiffly and said something about quarterly projections being ahead of schedule. Thompson mumbled congratulations without meeting my eyes. He was one of those who'd voted against my appointment twice and was now pretending he'd been in my corner all along.

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