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Black Delivery Boy Came To a Billionaire's Mansion — Then He Saw His Mother

Black Delivery Boy Came To a Billionaire's Mansion — Then He Saw His Mother

Chapter 12

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Lennox arrived first. He stood in front of the photograph of his mother; he hadn't seen it since the day of the cardiac episode. It looked different now: smaller, sadder—a woman frozen in a moment before everything went wrong. He reached up and touched the glass, his fingertip resting on the locket around her neck, the same shape as the one under his shirt.Garrett came in from the hallway. He stopped in the doorway. He saw Lennox standing there, saw the young man's hand on the photograph, saw the way he stood, saw the stillness in his posture. He saw the birthmark behind his ear. He saw Rosalyn's jawline, Rosalyn's eyes, the way she used to stand in front of paintings with her head slightly tilted.Garrett didn't speak. His hand gripped the doorframe, his knuckles white.Lennox turned. He reached under his shirt and pulled out the half-heart locket. He held it up without a word.Garrett's face crumbled—not slowly, but all at once, like a wall that had been cracking for twenty-two years finally giving way. He walked to the desk, opened the bottom drawer, his hand trembling as he lifted out a small velvet box. Inside was the other half: tarnished, scratched, kept in the dark for over two decades.He held it out.Lennox took it. He pressed the two halves together. They fit perfectly, the way they had always been meant to.Neither man spoke. The room was silent except for the sound of Garrett Beaumont's breathing: uneven, broken—the sound of twenty-two years of cowardice collapsing on itself.But this was not the end. Because Desmond had just been informed by the security office that an unauthorized visitor was in Garrett's private study, and he was already walking down the hallway.Desmond appeared in the doorway of the study in under two minutes. He was dressed for the office: pressed shirt, dark slacks, leather shoes that made no sound on the marble. He looked at Garrett first, then at Lennox, then at the two halves of the locket still pressed together in Lennox's hand.His face didn't change: not a flinch, not a blink. Twenty-two years of practice had made him very good at keeping his expressions locked."Garrett," he said, his voice calm, professional. "Who is this?"Garrett didn't answer immediately; he was still staring at the locket in Lennox's hands.
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