The Hacker Heiress Strikes Back novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: The Gala: The Doors
The ballroom doors opened onto four hundred people and a wall of flashbulbs.
I walked through them on Raylan's arm in a black tuxedo jacket and silk trousers.
My silver-lilac bob was combed flat, and my cracked watch showed at the cuff.
"Waverly! Who wrote Lamplight?" a photographer shouted.
"Ask me in an hour," I said.
Raylan's arm was warm and steady under my hand.
He wore the charcoal suit, no tie at all, and his father's watch.
"You look like a threat," he murmured.
"That's the plan."
The Merriman Foundation Gala filled the grand ballroom of a Buckhead hotel with crystal, white orchids and a chandelier the size of a Corolla.
At the far end a podium stood in front of a screen thirty feet wide.
In its top corner, in small gray letters, a line of text read: CAST CODE 4471.
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