The Billionaire Bride He Took for Granted novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Half a Sandwich
Krista was still live.
She stood in the hotel lobby in her bare feet, holding the phone at arm's length with the screen turned toward her, and she was reading her own comments aloud.
"'Is the accountant the real groom.' 'She's pregnant.' 'Who is the patron.' 'He used her.' Stop it. Everyone, stop."
The security man had one hand out, not touching her.
"Ma'am, I need you to stop filming."
"It's a public lobby."
"It's a private hotel, and you were asked to leave the ballroom."
"She did this." Krista swung around and saw me.
Her face was streaked with mascara, and the knot of hair had come down on one side.
"There she is. Chat, there she is. The patron."
Her voice cracked in the middle of the word.
I stopped at the edge of the marble with Miles beside me.
Nobody in the lobby was pretending not to watch.
"You can't do this," Krista said. "Your fund pays my grant. You can't pull a grant because of a feud."
"I'm not pulling it because of a feud."
"Then why?"
"You asked a woman who was standing at her own wedding to be a good sport, and you took her picture."
"It was content."
"It was her life," I said.
Her phone chimed in her hand, and then again, and then in a long rattling row.
She looked down.
"No," she said.
She read it out, because she could not stop herself.
"'We regret to inform you that after review of recent content.' That's the skincare brand."
The phone chimed.
"'Effective immediately, we are ending our partnership.' That's the energy drink."
Chime.
"The meal kit. The luggage."
Chime.
"Why are they all."
The little number in the corner of the screen, the one that counted her followers, had been 2.4 million at four o'clock.
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