One Night to Forever novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Mrs. Ryerson
I let him wait exactly as long as it took two hundred people to forget how to breathe.
Then I took the leather box out of his hand, opened it, and put the sapphire on my own finger.
"Yes," I said.
The room broke open.
Chairs scraped, glasses rang, and somewhere near the back, Hazel whooped.
Margaret lifted her cane an inch off the floor, which for her was a standing ovation.
"My terms still stand," I said to Desmond, under the noise. "I keep my name until I choose to change it. I keep my work."
"Done," he said. "What's the third?"
"You don't ask me for anything else tonight in front of other people."
"And upstairs?"
"Upstairs I'll tell you what I want."
Ford appeared at my elbow.
He held out a black card, the same size and shine as the one he had pressed into my hand on October tenth.
This one had a name on it in white letters.
C. ROWE.
"The door log for 2210 will read correctly this time," he said, and his glasses fogged. "I took the liberty."
"Thank you, Ford."
"Ms. Rowe, it was my honor to be wrong first and right second."
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