Money, Guns, and a Merry Christmas novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: Worthless

The ballroom emptied into the lobby an hour later, and everybody wanted to shake my husband's hand.

He stood by the big Christmas tree with me tucked against his side and let them.

Engineers and accountants, and a welder from the Erie plant who'd driven down in his only suit.

Half of them said, "I knew your voice, sir."

Celine stood two steps behind us with her phone still up.

"Grandma's asleep," she whispered to me. "She made me promise to save the video."

"Did you?"

"Three times."

Deena was across the lobby.

She'd found the head table.

She had her purse open and the gold frame out, and she was holding it up in front of a cluster of dark suits by the coat check.

Her voice carried over everything.

"I want this registered tonight. I want it in my name, in your books, before he can touch it."

The men in the suits looked at each other.

One of them was a grey-haired woman in a black gown, the only person in the lobby who wasn't smiling.

She held out her hand for the frame.

Deena gave it to her proudly.

The woman turned it over.

She took the certificate out of the frame and held it up to the chandelier light.

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