Stand Aside, the Billionaire Is Here novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Stand Aside
On Saturday at a quarter to noon, the east dock smelled of salt and fresh paint.
The crew had hosed down the quay, and someone had hung white bunting from the legs of the number-two crane.
Two hundred folding chairs stood in rows facing the plaque, and the refinery flare was nearly invisible in the bright sky.
I stood behind a container with my grandmother and a bouquet of white roses.
My dress was plain silk, cut simply, and the gold ring from Fontaine's was on my hand.
Adelaide had her cane, her pearls, and a grim satisfied look.
"Everyone is here," she said, peering around the steel. "Even the ones who should be ashamed to come."
I looked through the gap.
The two tables from Fontaine's sat in the fourth row, a little stiff in their good clothes.
Grayson's father sat alone near the aisle, thin and gray, with his hands on his knees.
The eleven directors filled a row, and the old director was beside the woman who had asked about the loss.
The Singapore board had flown in, which Joaquin said was their way of apologizing.
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