Behind the Mask: A Billionaire Romance novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Cue Hits
Six hundred masks watched him walk the center aisle, and nobody made a sound.
He moved the way he had moved on the empty floor when we danced.
Slow, upright, counting.
I stood behind the last table with my headset in my hand, and I did not breathe.
The silver mask hid everything but his mouth and his jaw.
The bare left hand hung at his side with the scar plain to every table he passed.
At table three, the surgeon stood up.
Then the board stood up, one by one, eleven chairs scraping, and the guests at the next table stood up with them.
It went outward.
By the time Elliott passed the stage, the whole room was on its feet.
Channing stood stage left with his arms still half open.
His smile had stopped.
Elliott walked past the stage, past the spotlight, past the black trunk in the middle of it, and kept going.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Behind the Mask: A Billionaire Romance are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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