The Heiress Strikes Back novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Heiress Strikes Back
The Founders' Dinner came round again in October, in the same ballroom under the same three chandeliers.
Three hundred people sat at round tables with white cloths.
This time, when I walked in, every one of them stood.
I had not asked them to.
Peter walked at my side in a dark suit that fit.
Joanne had taken him to her own tailor and would not hear a word against it.
His glasses were in his breast pocket.
His hand was warm at the small of my back.
The head table stood on a low platform at the far end of the room.
Raymond waited beside it with his cardigan traded for a black jacket and his hand on the back of a tall chair with arms.
It was the chair at the head, the one that had been his father's before him.
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