Hit the Jackpot! My Broke Chef Husband Is a Billionaire novel · Chapter 23 of 32

Chapter 23: The Dress

At eight on the morning of Maude's birthday I called the bank officer from the passenger seat of the van.

I told her about the legal pad.

She was quiet for a moment.

"I'll be at the dinner," she said. "Maude Carberry invited me personally. And I'll bring a colleague, if that's all right."

"What kind of colleague?"

"The kind who carries a badge in his coat and doesn't wear it to parties."

I hung up and held the pad against my chest.

Ewan, at the wheel, didn't ask me a thing.

He just reached over and put his big warm hand on my knee, and left it there until Lakewood.

My mother was having a good day.

She ate a whole egg for breakfast and told Maude she looked like an eggplant in the tracksuit.

By ten she had decided that nobody in our family would walk into a hundred-and-twenty-person dinner in cardigans.

"Not you, not me, and certainly not that hard-headed old woman," she said.

"I'm wearing the purple," said Maude.

"You're wearing it to the grave. Not to the Chairman's table."

Maude considered this.

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