A Stranger Told Me My Husband Cheated, So We Cheated Back novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: The Awards Dinner

The ballroom at the Harbor Business Foundation dinner held four hundred people and one giant screen.

The screen was showing a slow slideshow of Colfax Strength, with Trevor's face on every third slide.

I stood in the back doorway in Martha's black velvet, with the shoes I could run in.

Sonya was at table nine in her good green dress, holding a glass of water in both hands.

Martha sat beside her, back straight, pearls on.

Nolan's chair was empty.

He was standing three feet from me by the wall, in a dark suit, not touching me, and I could feel his attention on my skin.

"You can still change your mind," he said.

"I know."

"Say the word and I'll walk you out the side door."

"I'm staying," I said, because Bianca was crossing the stage.

She wore white.

She looked rested and glossy and perfect, and only a few of us knew about the split lip she'd had in my kitchen.

She had taken the job, I realized.

Her hands didn't shake once during the introduction.

"Our Small Business Leader of the Year," she said, into the microphone, in her warmest morning-news voice, "is a man who built something from nothing."

Her eyes slid across the room and found mine.

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