The Best Revenge It Wasn't Even Your Child novel Chapter 71

“I’m not going to leave her. She won’t be left alone.” Lance’s voice was calm, completely unmoved by her threat. “You should start thinking about how you’re going to explain all this to the board when I get to the bottom of it.”

“You…” Belinda sucked in a sharp breath.

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Catherine sat in her living room, taking a few deep breaths to steady herself. After a moment, she pulled out her phone and accepted Gavin’s friend request from last night.

Gavin sent over a meme almost instantly.

Without hesitating, Catherine tapped to start a voice call. “Gavin, you’ve seen the news, right? SilverLeaf Industries thinks I leaked the data to you. Can you help clear my name?”

Her voice was tense, a little desperate.

Gavin hadn’t seen a thing. He only opened the finance headlines after she brought it up.

“Holy crap. Who at Golden Horizon is pulling this kind of dirty move?”

Catherine paused for a beat. “It’s probably your dad.”

Gavin’s father had taken over Golden Horizon after Gavin had been pushed out. A story this big wasn’t hard to trace, and if Golden Horizon was behind it, his father definitely had to know.

Gavin groaned. “You know how my dad is. He doesn’t care about loyalty or feelings. If he’s involved, you’re just out of luck.”

Basically, even if he wanted to help, there wasn’t much he could do.

Catherine hadn’t realized Gavin had so little sway with his father.

“You might as well resign now. When I’m back at Golden Horizon…”

Before Gavin could finish, another call came in and interrupted him.

He glanced at the screen and answered.

“Who is this?”

Lance’s voice came through, cold and steady. “Do you want your seat back at Golden Horizon or not?”

Gavin was silent.

Of course he wanted it. But the way Lance was talking, like he controlled everything, made Gavin’s skin crawl.

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