The Billionaire's Fake Wife novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Fall
I walked to the lectern at the front of the stage, and four hundred people watched me do it.
The microphone was too tall.
I lowered it with both hands.
"Thank you," I said. "I'll be short, because the chair has told me what you do to speeches."
A few people laughed, nervously.
"Dorian says I'm a stranger with a price," I said. "He's half right."
"Weeks ago I walked into a boardroom in a bleach-stained sweater. A man I didn't know said I was his fiancee."
"I said yes for my sister's lab. I set terms before I ever sat down."
"I'd like you to know that three of them held."
Somebody in the crowd whistled.
"Odile Halloway wrote a clause in the will," I said, "and she has told a court so."
"She tested us. I was angry about it, and I told her so."
"I'm not angry about it tonight."
Odile did not move.
"Dorian wants you to believe that a woman who tests a marriage has no right to guard it," I said.
"I'd ask you to look at who he is protecting."
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