Daddy Forgot, but Mommy Remembers novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Gala
The Foundation gala filled the ballroom of a harbor hotel with three hundred people, a string quartet, and a chandelier the size of a car.
Giselle had planned it for eleven months.
The detective from the brunch had told me she would not miss it, and he was right.
She walked out onto the stage at eight sharp in a silver gown, with her hair in its smooth knot and her chin high.
Nobody there knew she'd run from state police on a boat four nights before.
She smiled into the microphone.
"Good evening, friends of the Thorsby Family Foundation."
I stood in the service corridor behind a pair of double doors, with a leather ledger under my arm.
I wore a black dress that Christian's housekeeper had hemmed for me, and no glasses.
I had left them in a drawer.
The detective stood beside me with two troopers behind him.
"Say the word," he said, "and we take her right now. You don't have to do it this way."
"Five minutes," I said. "I want her to say my name to those people, and then I want them to hear mine."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Daddy Forgot, but Mommy Remembers are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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