Betrayed by My Husband, Taken by His Billionaire Uncle novel · Chapter 25 of 32
Chapter 25: The Mill
Chandler never answered the photo.
That scared me more than anything he could have typed.
The gardenias landed Thursday at six in the morning, three hundred stems in wet cardboard, and the whole of Central Avenue smelled like June.
By Saturday afternoon they were on every table at the Mill.
The old spinning floor was one long room of brick and iron columns, with the original beams overhead and tall arched windows full of winter dark.
Thirty tables, ten gardenias each, in my mother's low glass bowls.
A stage at the far end, under a screen the size of a garage door, where somebody's slideshow of Truman's life was already playing.
Truman at nine, with the broom.
Annabeth came down off a ladder with green twine in her teeth.
"The AV guy's had two of my beers and loves me now," she said. "Your file's on his laptop. Cue's 'play the other one.'"
"You bribed the AV guy."
"I tended bar at him. Different thing." She looked me up and down. "Go change. You smell like a florist."
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