The Wife Isn't Me novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Gala
"The day after the gala," I said.
"He wanted me to have tonight to think about it." Andrew took the phone back and set it face down. "He wants me to watch."
"Then don't come."
He looked at me in the gray light, in his bed, with his hair flat on one side.
"Beth. I am absolutely coming."
The Lowther Gala was in the ballroom of a hotel downtown, by the harbor.
Four hundred people in black tie, and every one of them had written Lowther Memorial a check.
Philippa sent a dress over by courier, navy silk, with a note.
Don't argue. Navy photographs well. P.
Trish's son watched Bean. He took it very seriously, with a midwife in the next room.
Andrew wore a tuxedo he'd last worn to a wedding eight years ago, looking sharp despite himself.
Philippa met us at the side door off the kitchen, in white, with a clipboard and a hotel staff badge she'd borrowed from somebody.
"You're at table one," she said. "With the board. I moved the place cards myself."
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