The Fake Debutante and the True Billionaire novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Lemon Cake
I picked up the clutch, took out my phone, and handed it to her unlocked.
My pulse beat in my ears.
The recorder sat in the pearl, six inches from her shoe, and I did not look at it.
Marcelline thumbed the screen.
The thread on top was Tenny's.
Describe the dress, it said. I need to know if I would roast it.
Underneath, from an hour before: Eat something with a vegetable, Cabell.
And above that, a photograph of a radio, with the caption, Look at my baby.
"Your brother," Marcelline said.
"He texts when he's bored, which is always."
"He sounds a delight."
"He's a menace. He's what I have."
She scrolled up through a week of jokes and complaints about hospital pudding.
Her face changed by a hair, into something that on a kinder woman I would have called pity.
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