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Chapter 13: The Gala

I read the line four times.

Zero.

Not low. Not uncertain. Zero.

I sat down on the kitchen floor with my back against the dishwasher.

For six years Brian had flown to Denver every August fourteenth.

He had taught my children to lie to me for a boy who wasn't his.

I printed the result on the office printer.

I put it in a plain white envelope and didn't seal it.

Then I texted Sebastian a photo of the page.

He called in less than a minute.

"Does anyone else know?"

"Danielle," I said. "Probably."

"Bring it tomorrow."

"I was going to."

The Kessler Freight gala was in the ballroom of the Hilton downtown.

The same Hilton.

There were round tables with white cloths and tall centerpieces made of little silver trucks.

A banner over the stage said Thirty Years on the Road.

I wore dark green.

Long sleeves, a low back, my hair cut to my shoulders.

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