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Chapter 33: A Piece Of Paper
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THEY CHOOSE THE FAKE, NOW I OWN EVERYTHING Chapter 35: What Was Always Mine
I sat in the back of the SUV with my hands flat on my knees, and for the first time in a month, I stopped holding everything in.I let myself feel it, all of it—the cliff, the cold rice , the servant room i slept, the betrayal , the handcuffs clicking on Felix's wrists, the night the van came, the empty way my mother had looked at me in court. All the times I had cried. All the times I had stopped myself, because crying was evidence and I had been living inside a courtroom since the will was read. Tears rolled down my cheeks and I wiped them off.Not anymore!! I swore.I made a quiet vow, no one left to hear it: I will not ask them for anything ever again. Not an apology, not a glance. I will take back my name, my grandfather's company, and everything that was always mine—and I will do it without begging!!"Elias," I said. "The clause. Do you have it?"He turned in the front seat, and for once his face held no calm at all. Just pride. "Verbatim. Captain Teague printed three certifie
THEY CHOOSE THE FAKE, NOW I OWN EVERYTHING Chapter 34: Eight Oh Two
Anton Moreau laughed softly behind me, and for one long second I believed that he had already won.I sat very still at the petitioner's table with my hands folded and my heart pounding against my ribs. Across the aisle, my father's lawyer, a sleek man named Lockwood in a suit that probably cost more than the village school, was already getting to his feet with a small, satisfied smile. In the front row, Lydia pressed her handkerchief to her eyes. My mother stared at her lap."Your Honor," Lockwood began smoothly, "in light of the respondent's failure to answer, the petitioner asks that the court grant the guardianship as prayed.""Your Honor," Elias said.He had not raised his voice. He had only risen, slowly, buttoning his jacket as he did so, with the calm, unhurried air of a man who had sat through a great many courtrooms and was not impressed by any of them."Before the court rules by default, I would like to make a simple request. The clerk says there is no record of my filing. I
THEY CHOOSE THE FAKE, NOW I OWN EVERYTHING Chapter 33: A Piece Of Paper
I should have been afraid of the van on the street, but it was the small, slow wave from the back of that pale car that made my hands start to shake.Ray's fingers closed around mine, warm and a little damp, and I held on harder than I meant to. In the hall behind us, Elias was reading the order for a third time, his lips moving silently, his pen still tucked behind one ear. Hollis stood in the doorway with his good arm half raised, filling it completely, and I could see the muscles in his jaw working."Miss Halvorsen," the woman with the clipboard said again, softer this time. "I'm sorry. I know it's late. If you would just gather a few things, we can make this as easy as possible.""Easy," I repeated."It's only seventy-two hours. They'll look after you."She said it the way you would talk to a frightened child, and something in me went very quiet. She wasn't cruel. That was the worst part. She was a tired woman doing a tired job, handed a paper by someone who had told her it was fo
THEY CHOOSE THE FAKE, NOW I OWN EVERYTHING Chapter 32: Thirty-Six Hours
I had thirty-six hours to prove I was sane to a judge who had already decided I wasn't.I did not sleep that night. I sat at the kitchen table with the petition spread out in front of me, and Ray beside me with a pot of tea he had made without being asked, and I read my sister's statement until I could have recited it with my eyes closed. Strangely fixated. Walking on eggshells. For her own good. Somewhere around three in the morning, Ray gently slid the pages out of my hands, folded them in half, and set them out of reach."Enough," he said quietly. "You already know what it says.""I'm trying to find the lie.""They're all lies.""Then I'm trying to find the one that will break," I said, and I laughed a little, tiredly, and he smiled back at me over the rim of his cup. It was a small thing. It was the only thing that night that didn't hurt.By seven o'clock on Sunday morning, Hollis had called everyone. He had one arm in a sling and a second phone pressed to his ear, and he moved th
THEY CHOOSE THE FAKE, NOW I OWN EVERYTHING Chapter 31: Everything On Hold
Ray was quiet for a long time after that. He had gone back to the first page of the petition, and I watched his eyes move down it slowly, line by line, until they stopped near the bottom. I knew which line it was before he said anything. His hand went flat on the table, and his thumb pressed against the paper, hard enough to whiten the nail. "It says obsession," he said. "About me." "It's about her, Ray. Not you." "It's got my name in it, Tess." He tried to smile and could not quite manage it. "Strangely fixated. That's what she wrote. Like I'm something you picked up off the road and can't put down." He took off his glasses, held them in his hand, and then put them on again, carefully, so the tape wouldn't slip. "Maybe it would be easier if I stayed away for a few days. Until the hearing. If I'm not around, they can't use me." I turned in my chair and looked straight at him. "Don't you dare," I said. It came out sharper than I meant, and he blinked. I took a breath and t
THEY CHOOSE THE FAKE, NOW I OWN EVERYTHING Chapter 30: Monday will Never Come
“Monday will never come”!! The word kept ringing in my head but I didn’t know what the plan was. I always know my Lydia to be vicious, now I needed to know what exactly she had in mind.When I got inside my room, I took my bath and tried to wave the word off my head.The papers arrived on Saturday Morning.I was sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee I hadn’t touched, watching the steam curl and vanish , when I heard the gate buzzed. Dolores answered it. I heard her voice rise ,then fall and then her footsteps came quickly down the hall.“Miss Tessa” she said, and her face was pale “There’s a man at the door, and he said he has court papers”Ray was seated beside me , He had come over early, his lips still broken, his glasses held together with tape at the hinge. He had insisted on coming, on being there, and I had not argued . He had insisted on coming, on being there, and I had not argued. Now he set down his cup and stood, and I saw his jaw tighten."Let him in," I sai
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