A Mother Adored: From Office Outcast to CEO's Beloved novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Tate's Last Card
The Whitaker Founders' Dinner was held on Friday in the grand ballroom of the Columbus Statehouse Hotel.
Winifred had hosted it for forty years, and she would not move it for a scandal.
"Let them look," she said.
"I have been looked at by better."
I wore a dress the color of wheat, with a wide skirt that hid nothing and apologized for nothing.
Nolan had taken one look at it in the doorway of our room and had to sit down on the bed.
"Is that a problem?" I said.
"It is a medical event," he said.
Three hundred guests sat at round tables under crystal chandeliers.
Reporters stood along the back wall with their phones raised.
Four of the women from the fourth floor sat at our table, in dresses they had borrowed from each other.
I was eating a roll when a man stood up from a table near the stage.
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