Divorce and Rise to My Pinnacle novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Gala
The Pinnacle gala filled a hotel ballroom with two hundred people and one very large banner.
"BUILT ON FAMILY," it said, in gold letters above the stage.
I wore the plain navy dress and carried one folder.
The man at the door ran his finger down the guest list and stopped.
"Mrs. Landry. You're here as the licensor."
"Ms. Hale," I said. "Yes."
He let me in without a second look.
Crystal, white roses, a string quartet playing something cheerful.
Nathan stood at the back wall in a charcoal suit, hands folded, looking like a man who had never raised his voice.
He did not wave.
He only watched me cross the room, as he had promised.
Walter Fenn sat at the board table with a pale, serious face.
Beside the stage sat the Ridgeway partner, a gray-haired woman who had not smiled since June.
Marjorie held the center seat in her pearls.
And in the front row, in an ivory silk dress, sat Kendra.
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