The Phoenix's Rebirth for Revenge novel · Chapter 24 of 32

Chapter 24: Adopted

Nobody in that ballroom looked at the stage after that.

They looked at my mother.

Six hundred faces turned toward the lectern, where she stood with the microphone still in her hand and her mouth slightly open.

For one second she had no expression at all.

Then she lifted her chin.

"My daughter," she said into the microphone, very gently, "has been ill for a long time."

The officers walked Sabine down the stage steps.

Sabine didn't scream again.

She looked back once, at me, not at our mother.

Then the side door closed behind her.

The hotel turned the music back on.

Nobody danced.

By seven the next morning there were four news vans on Mount Vernon Street.

Somebody at the gala had filmed the arrest on a phone.

By breakfast it had been played two hundred thousand times, with the scream at the end.

At nine my mother came out onto the front steps of the Beacon Hill house in a navy dress and pearls.

Her lawyer stood on one side of her and my father on the other.

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