Remarried After I Secretly Divorced the CEO novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Eve
The rehearsal dinner was held in the unfinished lobby of Harbor Tower.
Forty feet of raw concrete rose over a single long table.
Strings of work lights hung from the scaffolding.
The chairman had insisted on it.
"A man should eat at the building he is paying for," he had told Max.
Forty guests sat down at the table.
The chairman's wife sat at his right in her pearls.
She studied me with the calm of a woman who had been right about something for years.
Max sat on my left.
On his other side sat his head of finance, in a black dress with her hair tucked behind her ears.
She had been told she was needed for the numbers.
She had not spoken to him since she came in.
Odile had arrived with her cane and a plus-one in a dark suit.
He had been seated at the far end beside a pillar, where he could see me and not be heard.
He had not looked at me once.
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