She Raised Us on Our Dead Parents' Settlement, So We Crashed Her Gala novel · Chapter 36 of 40
Chapter 36: The Award Dinner
The Lakeshore Convention Center in Cleveland held eight hundred people in a ballroom with a ceiling forty feet up, hung with chandeliers.
A stage stood at the far end under a banner that read THE GOVERNOR'S AWARD FOR CHILD ADVOCACY.
It held a podium, a flag, and a crystal trophy on a stand.
Table fourteen was in the second row, close enough to read the Governor's cufflinks.
I wore a green dress Cass had found at a consignment shop in Lakewood.
Sabina had pinned the neckline in the car.
Sabina wore a dark blue dress, no gray suit, and her hair down.
I had looked at her twice before I recognized her.
Cass wore black, the nose ring, and a pair of combat boots under the tablecloth.
Stefan sat on my right in a rented tuxedo.
"You can breathe," he said into my ear.
"I'm breathing."
"You're doing it very hard," he said.
"I'm doing it correctly," I said.
He moved his hand under the table and laid it over mine.
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