True Heiress vs. Fake Queen Bee novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: The Gala

The line behind me went silent.

Then it went loud.

"Haldane? Like Brielle Haldane?"

"Isn't that the stalker girl?"

"Wait, she's on the list as what?"

The guard looked from the tablet to the bid day photo in his other hand, and his ears went red.

"Ma'am, I have you down as someone we don't admit."

"You have Liv Mabry down," the officer said, stepping up beside him. "That's Olivia Haldane, guest of the foundation that's paying your company tonight."

"Check her license if you want. I already did."

The guard didn't check.

He stepped aside.

I walked into the ballroom with Trudy on one side, Brodie on the other, and seventeen rowers filing in behind us to the back wall.

The ballroom was gold and white and full.

Round tables, a dance floor, a stage with a band and a podium under a big banner.

Ridgefield Homecoming, Coming Home Together.

Six hundred people, maybe more.

The news crew from the boathouse had a camera on a tripod by the stage.

The student paper's livestream had a phone on a stick right next to it.

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