Climbing Into My Sister's Fiancé's Bed novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Witnessed
"A figure of speech," Lavinia said.
Nobody answered her.
She set the martini down, and some of it spilled on the mahogany.
"Gentlemen. A woman in a vest has provoked me in my own house. You know me. You know I didn't mean it."
"I know you," said the old man. "That's the difficulty."
He took a small notebook out of his breast pocket and uncapped a pen.
"At seven-twenty-one in the evening, the chair of the Tattnall Foundation said she would see to it that a patient never saw another list, if a wedding did not take place."
"Is that a fair account?"
"It is," said the heavy man at Lavinia's right, quietly.
I looked at him.
He was gray under the collar, and he looked at the tablecloth.
"I seconded your motion this morning, Lavinia," he said. "I thought it was a family matter. I didn't know it was a hostage."
"Don't be dramatic."
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