My Husband Used My Fortune to Support His Mistress novel · Chapter 6 of 24

Chapter 6: The Founders' Gala

Eli had said he thought Bryce filmed the funeral signing, and I had thought about nothing else for two days.

The Prescott Founders' Gala has been held on the first Saturday of November for forty years.

My father gave the toast every year until he died, and two years ago I took over the microphone.

This year four hundred guests filled the Grand's ballroom, and every one of them had read the news alert.

I could feel it in the way they looked at my bandaged hand and then politely away.

I wore my mother's brooch.

The clasp had been straightened by a jeweler that morning, and it sat on my shoulder where she used to wear it.

Eli stood at my elbow in a black suit.

"You don't have to speak tonight," he said. "Nobody would blame you."

"I'm speaking."

"Then speak short."

I smiled at that, and he glanced at my mouth, and then at the floor.

I noticed.

I noticed it for the rest of the evening.

At nine I walked up to the stage.

The room settled.

"Thank you all for coming," I said. "My father started this hotel with eleven rooms and one cook. Tonight there are forty properties and eight thousand people who work for them. The first thing he taught me was that they are the family."

There was a ripple of applause, and I let it finish.

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