Silence Reveals Hidden Answers’ by Michael Anderson novel Chapter 95

Chapter 95

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Jennifer Marie.

Whole nine hours… no ten actually, one more hour for the dude that was recording everything that was being said in the shareholder’s meeting while I sat there in silence.

Watching the horror of the back and forth between Harvey, theirectors, the shareholders, his lawyers, the investigative team that came to cross-check if we were truly married.

They spent the first two hours just looking at us. At me especially Like they were trying to figure out if I was some random girl Harvey paid to show up with a ring.

They wanted to see the marriage certificate. Laura handed it over proudly. They examined it like it was a counterfeit bill… holding it up to the light, checking the seal, running fingers over the judge’s signature. One of them actually pulled out a magnifying glass.

Steven laughed from his end of the table. “This is a joke. You expect us to believe he got married in a few hours?”

The lead investigator made a phone call. Sent two of his people out to the registry, I think, to check the physical files and verify that the digital records matched the paper trail.

Harvey occasionally squeezed my hand under the table.

Then the investigators came back and announced it was real. Signed, sealed, and approved by the Superior Court of New York County.

Steven slammed his hand on the table so hard the water glasses jumped. “This is impossible! There’s no way-”

His supporters about six of them scattered around the room.

Harvey stood there the whole time with that stain on his arm that was definitely blood. Nobody mentioned it. Nobody asked. But I saw the way their eyes kept drifting to it, the way they chose their words carefully, the way Steven’s loud mouth got quieter every time Harvey looked at him.

Then Harvey took the floor.

He laid out new rules for the shareholders’ business. Restrictions on family appointments. Transparency requirements that made some of them squirm in their seats. Made sure no one can visit his dad at this time…strictly family only, and by family he meant himself.

And then, the live stream,

Millions of people watching at home saw Harvey Prescott talking about the vision of the company. About taking Prescot Holdings into a new era of legacy where things are about how things were going to change.

I watched some of it on the monitor in the corner. The comments were flying and freaking half of them were about how he he is. The other half were referring back to how I was the girl on the reunion night.

Now finally at the final end of what I’m hoping is over, I smooth my foot in the heels as the shareholders have all left the conference room but I can see Harvey through the glass doors of the outside speaking to the lawyers. I get up and yawn before hearing footsteps and Laura puts a bottle of water on the long table.

“That was…”

“Long” I say.

“Yeah you guys can definitely go back and rest after everything ‘ve been through today…” She pauses. “Shit, I also want to say thank you.”

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I stop stretching and look at her. “For what?”

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“For changing his mind.” She glances toward Harvey through the glass. “I thought Francis Prescott was the most hard-headed man I’ve ever worked with. I didn’t think his son was a thousand limes worse.”

I smile, opening the bottle of water. By the way, it’s my third bottle of water today. The nerves have me dehydrated.

“I would have died if I had to work with Baxter.” Laura shakes her head. “Even if Harvey is tough,” she looks back at him with something like respect in her eyes, “he is the kind of heir Presco Holdings needs. And you…”

“Me?” I seal the bottle back and squint.

“Okay, so what are they saying about me? My phone is going crazy with my mom calling me already. Last time she saw Harvey and I together, she gave him permission to take me home. Not to marry me.”

Laura looks back at the men talking and then looks at me with this knowing smile.

“They are saying that a woman who can be with a man like Harvey is surely a person they want to be nice to.

I raise my brows.

“Men like these shareholders reverence women that can control man that they cannot.” She leans in to whisper. “That’s how it is in the business world. They might start sending their daughters to become your friends. If you meet them coincidentally at a mall or an event, it’s not a coincidence. They want access to Harvey through you.”

“Oh.” I take note of that and file it away in my brain under “thing to watch out for.”

A knock on the slide door makes us both turn. It’s Harvey, head oked through like he’s checking if I’m still alive.

“I’ll see you… when I see you.” Laura smiles at me.

“Bye.” I tell her and walk past her to Harvey.

“Ready to

go

home?” He asks, and I’ve never heard better words.

“I thought you’d never ask.” I hold his hand and squeeze. Then a thought hits me. “Wait, which home?”

“Our home.”

Someone responds and it’s not Harvey. Baxter and Nisha and Winny walk toward us and I feel it as if someone breaks a bottle of beer right on my head.

I didn’t see them during the entire meeting! Were they here the whole time?

I have to look at Harvey who now looks like he forgot a very important detail outside of all this.

“Our!?”

I smile at Harvey but it’s not a good smile. I know it’s been a long day but I swear I need to know what that means.

“Um-”

“Uh, according to the clause your great grandfather put in, the children of the household are legally allowed to stay in the Prescott Estate as long as there is no reason for malpractice or any devious crimes that can be proven with evidence.” Elio appears out of nowhere, delivering the information.

I almost scoff. Why does his great-grandfather have so many freaking clauses and-

“Congratulations.” Nisha says with a smile.

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