True Heiress vs. Fake Queen Bee novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: The Queen Bee Falls

For a second, nobody in the ballroom breathed.

Then Brielle laughed into the podium mic, high and cracked.

"She's lying. She's the maid's daughter. She's been lying since the lawn."

"Daddy, tell them."

My father didn't say anything.

He looked at me with his hand still on her back.

"Olivia," he said, very quietly. "This isn't the place."

His lapel mic was still on.

Six hundred people heard him say my name.

The sound that went through the room wasn't a gasp.

It was a long, low groan.

Brielle turned her head and stared at him.

"Why did you call her that?"

The director had stayed at the foot of the steps.

She lifted her chin toward me, and I tipped my microphone to her.

"I held this young woman at her christening," she said. "She screamed through the whole thing."

"Her name is Olivia Haldane. Her mother was my friend."

The back doors opened.

Lorna walked in, still in her raincoat, her bun coming loose from three hours of highway.

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