Chapter 32 · GCash and Pride

Corazon's hand shot out and grabbed my wrist before I could pull the ledger back. Her rings dug into my skin, cold metal biting deep enough to leave marks. Her mouth was still open around that name — Neneng — like it had come out of her before her brain caught up to what she was saying.

"Where did you get this," she said. Not a question. A demand with no air behind it.

"My mother's things." I didn't move my wrist even though it hurt. "You knew her."

"I said where."

"Let go of me first."

Grant leaned forward at the head of the table, elbows on the wood, watching the two of us like it was a cockfight he had money on. Bianca had gone the color of the tablecloth, her knuckles white around her water glass. Jae Min hadn't sat back down. He was still standing where he'd been when I walked in and blew his sell-off wide open, jaw tight enough to crack a tooth, one hand curled into a fist at his side like he