Chapter Forty-Five

Larry turns slowly and takes the pen into his hand.

He flips to the page with the dotted line and hovers the pen above it before a few seconds before quickly signing it and dropping the pen.

”Excellent.” Peggy says as she looks down at her phone and then looks at me with a smile.

Suddenly the door opens and one of Peggy’s men enter inside and walk towards us with a small white envelope.

”Ma’am, your request.” He says handing Peggy the envelope.

”Here you go Mr. Larry Wentworth, you are now a much richer man.” Peggy says then takes the
paper off the table and hands it to me.

”This is yours.” She says walking pass me.

I turn and leave behind her.

I started to feel overwhelming joy, it swept through my body in a quick rush, a sensation of unbelievable joy hit me like a wave.

“We won..” I say under my breath.

“What was that darling?” Peggy asks me as we walk towards the limo.

“We won.” I say aloud.

“Yes, we did darling. But before we celebrate I want to ask you a question.” She says and a pause continues until we are seat ourselves in the back on the limo.

“Yes?”

“May I ask what that phone call that you got was about?”

“It was nothing-“

“Don’t lie to me Bette, you should know better.” My words get cut off by hers. “You seemed very on edge when you entered back into the house again, so tell me.” She says. “What happened?”

“It was a phone call from Alice.”

“And?”

“Kelly came to the house and threatened her for information as to where we are.” I say sighing. “She even brought along one of her men.”

“Kelly did that.” Peggy says climbing into the back seat of the limo. “She must have some nerve.”

“Why do you say that?”

“I say that because she must have some nerve to cross Bette Porter.”

“She’s angered me enough to do this. And now that it’s finally completed, you have no idea how it makes me the happiest person walking this earth today.”

“I knew we would get this right away. I looked at Larry’s background with his daughter before I looked at anything else.”