Sweetheart Wife novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Ballroom
Lacey tapped the microphone with one finger, and the sound boomed off the chandeliers.
The band stopped playing in the middle of a bar.
Three hundred people turned their heads toward the stage, with their glasses halfway to their mouths.
"I'm sorry to interrupt," Lacey said.
Her voice was so thin that the speakers made it worse.
"My name is Lacey Boone. I'm Delilah Habersham's daughter."
"Lacey," Delilah said, in a bright, brittle voice, and put a hand on her arm. "Darling, you're unwell."
Lacey stepped out from under the hand.
"I'm not," she said. "I'm just late."
At the side of the stage a young man in a black shirt, one of the sound crew, gave her a thumbs-up.
She held out her phone to him, and he plugged a cord into the bottom of it.
I understood then why she had not left me a copy.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Sweetheart Wife are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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