I Married My Fiancé's Uncle novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: Waltz
"He has something," I said in the elevator.
"He has something," Felix agreed.
"He seconded his own funeral. Nobody does that."
"Laurence has never been early to anything in his life," he said. "He was early to that."
The doors opened on twelve.
He didn't get out.
"No silences," he said. "The gala is the chair's party. It always has been. My father planned the first forty himself."
"Okay."
"I've let the events office run it for six years. They do ice sculptures." He looked at me. "The chair would like his wife to plan it. Tonight and tomorrow. With him."
"You want me to throw a party for six hundred people in thirty-four hours."
"I want you to throw it at him."
I got out of the elevator, and I was already thinking.
We planned it on the library floor, because the desk was too small.
Felix brought the atrium blueprints up from the archive. I brought markers.
The events office had ordered an ice swan.
"Cancel the swan," I said.
"The swan's been ordered since August."
"Felix, nobody in this city ever stood in the sleet to look at a swan."
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