Betrayed, I Rise novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: Unwell
"She's been struggling since her mother died," my father said.
"We've gotten her help before. We'll get her help again."
It wasn't true.
Nobody had ever gotten me anything but a tutor and a driver.
"Tonight was supposed to celebrate Wexford Pensacola," he said.
"Instead I've had to watch my daughter humiliate two young people who have been nothing but patient with her."
People were turning to look at me.
Some of them with pity. That was worse.
"Security," my father said, very gently. "Please help my daughter to her car."
The same two words he'd used at Cedar Key.
Four guards came from the edges of the room.
They didn't touch me. The oldest of them just stood at my elbow and nodded toward the doors.
Troy reached me at the same time.
"She doesn't have a car," he said. "She's got me."
We walked out together.
The whole length of the ballroom.
Past the chandeliers and the string quartet and four hundred faces.
Past the table where Skylar sat with her head on Vincent's shoulder, sobbing into her phone.
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