The Heiress Strikes Back novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Gala
The Founders' Gala filled the same ballroom, under the same three chandeliers, with a stage at one end and a white screen over it.
Three hundred people took their seats at round tables.
Many of them had clapped for Lorna on the last night.
I sat at the head table in a dark green dress Joanne had bought me that week.
My hair was pinned up, and my hands were in my lap.
Peter stood at the back wall by the doors, in his badly fitting suit.
He had asked Joanne if he could be there and not be seen.
She had said he could be there, and that she would decide about the rest.
Lorna came in at eight, alone, in white silk with a train.
Her mother had told her to wait for the room to fill.
She floated down the center aisle with her hand to her heart, and the people at the tables smiled, and a few of them stood.
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