He Made Me His Servant, Then Begged Me to Say No novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Gala
Laurence stood at the back of the ballroom in a rented suit that stopped an inch above his wrists.
He had not been in his father's house for nine days.
He had come in through the kitchen, because the front steps were lined with cameras.
The housekeeper had put a hand on his arm without a word and let him go by.
The room was full.
Three hundred people sat at round tables under the chandeliers, bankers and trustees and old women in pearls.
Every one of them had been given a card with the evening's program.
Eli's name was on it, fourth from the end.
Closing remarks, five minutes.
Laurence found that he was gripping the back of a chair so hard the wood creaked.
Brant Lathrop sat at the third table from the front in a blazer, with his father on one side of him and an empty chair on the other.
He was white-faced and sullen, and he looked at no one.
At the head table, Carlton Fairbanks sat very straight with his hands folded on the cloth.
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