Hidden Hero: His Time to Shine novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Capitol Steps
The Capitol steps were lit.
White light fell down the long limestone stairs, and rows of folding chairs ran across the plaza below, filled with three thousand people in coats.
Press risers stood on both sides, and a bank of cameras faced the podium at the top.
Jo had bought me a suit.
It was charcoal, and it fit, and it was the first one I had ever owned that had not belonged to somebody else.
"Turn around," she said at the barricade.
I turned.
She straightened my collar with a nurse's brisk hands.
"There," she said. "Now they'll look at you."
"I don't want them to look at me."
"You don't get a vote."
She had a seat in the third row, and I had a place behind the podium curtain with Ellen's agents.
Ellen stood beside me in a long gray coat, watching the crowd through a gap.
"Lyle's badge was scanned at the south gate eight minutes ago," she said.
"As what?"
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