The Fake Debutante and the True Billionaire novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: Her Real Name
"My name is not Rosamond Cabell," I said.
The microphone carried it to the back wall and returned it, a half second late.
"It's Jessamyn Beall, and I'm from Moncks Corner, and my father left when I was nine."
"I have worn her name for seven weeks, and tonight I'm giving it back."
I looked at the room.
It looked back at me.
Nobody coughed.
"He's seventeen. His name is Tennyson."
"He's sitting at the back of this ballroom on a stool, because he wanted to be the one who switched the lights off."
Two hundred heads turned.
Tenny lifted one hand off the console.
A woman at table six began, very quietly, to cry.
"For two years I danced at the Night Heron, in a wig and a mask, to pay for his care."
"I'm not ashamed of one dance. I'd do it again, tomorrow, in front of every one of you."
"And when a woman offered to pay for a white gown and a borrowed name, I took her money."
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