She Raised Us on Our Dead Parents' Settlement, So We Crashed Her Gala novel · Chapter 37 of 40

Chapter 37: Table Fourteen

I walked to the foot of the stage.

A spare microphone stood there on a stand, for toasts, and the stand was still lit.

It was the same kind of stand as the one in the yacht club ballroom.

I took the microphone off its clip.

"Mrs. Gorski," I said.

My voice came through the speakers a half second late.

It was not flat this time.

Bernadette stopped in the middle of her sentence with the smile frozen on her face.

"Delphine," she said, off microphone. "Sit down."

"I've been sitting for eleven years."

The Governor, at the side of the stage, turned his head.

I looked straight at him.

"Governor, I asked your staff for two minutes. I'm told you said yes."

A pause stretched across eight hundred people.

Then he nodded once, gravely, and stepped back from the podium.

Cass stood at table fourteen.

Sabina stood beside her.

Behind me, I heard Stefan's chair push back.

"Tonight you're honoring a woman for twenty-three years of service to children," I said. "I'd like to introduce you to the children."

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