Secret Strangers in Love novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Two Names
Four hundred people stared at us, and nobody in the ballroom knew whether to clap.
Stanford Ashworth looked at the two of us the way you look at a pot that has finally boiled.
"Take five minutes," he said into the microphone. "The soup will keep. Lyle, you will stay exactly where you are."
Gavin took my hand and walked me through the tables.
We went out through the tall glass doors onto the terrace, and the March wind off the lake hit my bare back.
He shut the doors behind us.
For a moment we only stood there, breathing.
"You're Alexis Gaillard," he said.
"You're the groom."
"I'm the groom."
"I told you my mother taught me caramel," I said. "I told you about my thumb."
"I told you about my father."
"You told me in the dark, on a desk, with noodles."
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