The Stranger I Married novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Opening
By six o'clock on the fourteenth, the lobby of the Hartwell Chicago looked like a garden in a dream.
I stood at the foot of the grand staircase with my whole crew around me and looked up.
White peonies, pale garden roses and long branches of birch climbed the banister, and the ballroom doors stood open on the ring of birch overhead.
Forty arrangements, every one of them finished and every one of them mine.
"We did it," said the youngest girl, and burst into tears.
"We did it," Carly agreed, and handed her a tissue from her bra.
The sixty-two housekeepers and engineers Elias had brought back were lined along the north wall in crisp uniforms, waiting for the doors.
One of the housekeepers caught my eye and touched two fingers to her forehead.
I touched mine back.
The young doorman crossed the marble and pressed a worn envelope into my hand.
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