He Saved Her Child, Abandoned Ours novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: Little Hands

The Little Hands dinner had four hundred seats, and I had sold every one of them myself.

I stood in the wings of the ballroom on Saturday night in a dark green dress, with a flash drive in my fist.

For two days Cressida had been gone.

Hallam Court was empty, her flat in Chelsea was let to strangers, and Posy's school said she had been collected by her mother.

Rafe had searched with a private investigator and found nothing.

On Friday night a text had come to my phone from a number I did not know.

Saturday. Third row. If you say one wrong word, the sofa goes to the paper at nine instead of ten.

I had read it in Bridie's kitchen and handed the phone to Rafe's mother.

She had read it twice and said, "Well, you can hardly leave."

"Rhiannon."

The charity's director came through the curtain in a black suit, wringing a pair of reading glasses.

"Thank God," she said. "I was afraid you wouldn't come."

"I'm the chair."

"You are. And you've been so brave, and the sponsors are all so sympathetic." She dropped her voice. "But they would be more comfortable if you just said hello, and let me do the speech."

"They would be more comfortable."

"With the papers today, and the situation..."

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