Money-Minded and Plot-Aware novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Reader
The ballroom had gone quiet enough to hear the candles burn.
"You read it," I said.
"Chapter one to sixty-three, on the train, in the toilets at work, in bed at four in the morning," Sorrel said.
"Eleven months. I had notes."
The Queen turned her head slowly between us.
She could not know a word of it, but she understood the shape of it, as she had understood the shape of a bad bond.
"Explain," she said.
"Your Majesty, I was a nobody," Sorrel said.
She had stopped performing.
She stood straight, her hair half down, in a ruined white gown.
She spoke the way a woman speaks when there is nothing left to lose.
"I woke up one morning in a servant's bed in a world I knew by heart."
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