He Kept the Firm, So I Booked His Engagement Dinner novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: The Ring in the Glass

Cora's POV

I answered Tobias's question an hour later, in the hall outside my studio.

"Yes," I said. "To the rest, too."

He did not smile at first. He pulled me against his chest and held on, with his chin on my hair, until I felt him breathe out.

Then we went to Rodrick's engagement party together.

The Lowell Design floor was lit up with white flowers and a banner that read CONGRATULATIONS RODRICK & KELSEY.

The invitation had gone to eighty people.

Fourteen had come.

They stood in small knots around the bar with their drinks, and a cousin was quietly eating the canapés alone.

Rodrick stood at the front of the room in his good suit, with a champagne flute he had not touched.

He saw me and put it down.

"You came," he said.

"You said you had something."

"I do." He swallowed. "But I want to do this first, in front of everyone. Will you let me?"

I looked at Tobias. He shrugged one shoulder, which meant it was my call.

"Fine," I said.

"Thank you."

Rodrick tapped a spoon against a glass.

The fourteen turned to look.

"I want to say something," he said, and his voice shook. "I took Cora's work, I took her money, and I let my mother take the rest. I knew what the Pembroke was. I let four hundred people clap anyway."

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