My Husband Buried Me in Gossip, So I Came Back With His Brother novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Award
The Chamber of Commerce Businessman of the Year banquet seats four hundred at round tables in the fairgrounds hall.
The same ferns stood by the same glass doors where Brandi had once held up a key.
Someone had hung silver tinsel from the rafters and a banner over the stage: A GOOD NEIGHBOR IS GOOD BUSINESS.
I stood at the back, in a dark green dress my mother had hemmed, with a plaque under my arm.
It was engraved, and heavier than a casserole dish.
Dale stood beside me in a gray suit I had never seen, with his beard trimmed and his tie crooked.
"You look handsome and a little bit arrested," I said.
"Thank you."
"I mean it kindly."
"I know," he said, and straightened my collar, in front of the whole hall.
Nobody gasped.
A woman at the nearest table raised her glass to us a quarter-inch and sipped.
Table one stood at the foot of the stage.
Three men in dark suits sat there with a stack of folders, and the thinnest one, with silver hair, was the lender.
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