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The CEO Abandoned Hiress Chapter 54
Callie's POV"Please state your name for the record."I stood in the center of the courtroom with my hands at my sides. My heels sounded very loud on the marble."Calista Rose Dawson.""And are you alive, Ms. Dawson?"A ripple of laughter ran through the gallery. The judge did not smile."Yes, Your Honor," I said. "I am."---I had not walked in alone.Nathan was on my left in a charcoal suit, tall and unreadable. Reid was on my right with his hands folded and his eyes on every door. Carter walked half a step behind, because he would not stop checking that I was still there.When the doors opened, the whole room turned.Conversation stopped in the middle of a word. A clerk dropped a pen. In the third row, a reporter lowered her phone very slowly.They had come to watch a woman be declared dead.She had walked in with three men who looked like her.At the far table sat my uncle's lawyers. Four of them, in dark suits, with thick binders and calm faces. One of them glanced up at me. Then
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Callie's POV"It reads like a confession, Ms. Dawson."The detective tapped the plastic evidence bag. Inside it was a small square of paper with one name written in blue ink.Michael Reyes."It is two words," I said."It is a dead man naming the person he was afraid of." He closed his folder. "Combined with the supply log, that is enough.""Enough for what?""For charges."He did not say it unkindly. He said it like a man reading a weather report.---They charged Michael at two in the afternoon.I stood in the corridor outside the interview room with Nathan beside me. Through the glass I could see Michael sitting very straight, with his hands folded on the table and a lawyer whispering in his ear.He saw me.He did not wave. He only gave the smallest nod, the kind you give someone across a crowded room to say I am still here.Then the medical board called.I heard it from Carter, who was reading his phone beside me with his jaw tight."Emergency suspension," he said. "Effective immed
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Callie's POV "Dr. Pruitt."I said it out loud, and the name tasted wrong in my mouth.Reid sat at the long table in the family waiting room with two laptops open and a man in a black jacket reading numbers over his shoulder. It was past midnight. Papa was asleep behind the glass. Carter slept in the chair beside him, still holding his hand."He has been Papa's doctor for twenty years," I said. "He came to Mama's funeral.""I know." Reid did not look up. "That is why nobody checked him."He turned the screen toward us. A login record. A string of numbers. The same code he had found in the margin of the log."Administrator credential. Issued to Walter Pruitt, MD. Used at 9:12 on Tuesday to edit the supply entry. After it was printed."Nathan stood behind my chair with his arms folded."Papa trusted him with his life," Nathan said."He gave him exactly that," Reid said.I felt sick.The sedative had been in my father's body for weeks. Someone had been giving it to him slowly. Someone wh
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Callie's POV"Nathan Dawson."The voice on the line did not say hello. It said his name the way a man says it when he is already standing up.I held the folded paper against my ear. My hand would not stay steady."It is Callie," I said. "Papa gave me this number."Silence.I thought the call had dropped. Then I heard a breath, long and uneven, like someone coming up from deep water."Calista Rose," he said.My real name. The one only my family used. Nobody had said it to me in six years."Nathan.""Where are you?""St. Mark's Hospital. Papa is in the ICU. Someone poisoned him.""Do not move." I heard a chair scrape and a door slam. "Do not leave that building. Do not trust anyone you did not trust yesterday. We are coming.""We?""All of us."---They landed in three hours.I was standing at the ICU window when the elevator opened and three men walked out in a line.I knew them before I saw their faces. I knew them by the way they walked. Nathan first, tall, in a dark coat, with Papa'
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Callie's POV"Do not stop. Do not stop. Do not stop."Michael said it to himself between compressions, his arms locked, sweat running down his temple. I knelt on the other side of my father's body with his cold hand in mine and watched Michael's palms push down again and again on his chest."Callie, talk to him.""Papa. Papa, please.""Louder.""Papa, stay with me!"Two minutes. Three. Michael's breath came in ragged pulls. He did not slow down.Then my father's chest jerked. A wet, rattling gasp tore out of him."Pulse," Michael said hoarsely, two fingers pressed to his neck. "I have a pulse. Weak. But it is there."The paramedics ran in a minute later. They took over without a word, and Michael sat back on his heels with his hands shaking against his knees.I stared at him.Twelve missed calls in the dark. A fever that would have stopped a little heart. Now this.He had saved someone I loved again. He had not been asked."Go with him," Michael said. "I will follow."I did not thank
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Callie's POV"What did you promise him, Papa?"I did not take off my coat. I did not sit down. I stood in the doorway of his study with the wire still taped under my shirt and my uncle's voice still in my ears.My father looked up from the desk. He saw my face and slowly put down his pen."He told you something.""He told me to ask."Papa closed his eyes."Sit, Callie.""Tell me.""Please."I sat.The lamp threw a small circle of yellow light across the desk. Outside, Lily was laughing at something on the television, and the sound seemed to come from another world."The night I sent you away," he said. "Raymond did not only threaten the family.""You told me he did.""He did. But he also offered a way out." His voice was very low. "He said he would let all of you live if I gave him two things. The chairmanship. And you.""Me?""Your absence." He opened his eyes. "I had to send you away myself. I had to swear that I would never contact you again. Never look for you, never write, never
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