Jilted at the Altar, I Married His Billionaire Uncle novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: The Crown
The roof of Strahan Tower was white gravel and wind, forty-one stories over the Allegheny.
Above it rose the crown.
Open steel lattice, black against a hard blue noon.
I hadn't been up here since I was twenty.
Somebody had set out a hundred white folding chairs facing a podium, and a big photo of Elise on an easel.
Dark hair in a low knot. Wire glasses. A pencil behind one ear.
She was smiling at somebody just off camera.
"Me," Anson said quietly. "I took that."
The press had the front rows. Six cameras on tripods.
Hayden's mother sat alone at the end of a row, in black, in pearls.
My stepmother sat beside Kaylee in the second row.
Kaylee wore black and big sunglasses. She didn't look around.
I'd sent her one text at midnight.
Noon. The roof. You don't have to say a word.
She hadn't answered.
My gang came off the next load.
With them came my father, in his union jacket, gripping the hoist rail with both hands.
A guard said family only, and my partner said, "We're her family. Check the list."
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