The Billionaire Married a Homeless Girl novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: The Photograph

Nobody in the ballroom spoke while Daphne walked to the foot of the stage.

She held the cream folder against her chest with both arms.

"I didn't want to do this," she said. "I tried to be kind. I tried the school, I tried the phone, I tried everything. But since the family has decided to tell the truth tonight."

She took out a photograph and held it up.

"Five years ago I showed Nolan this. It's a wedding."

Someone in the dark behind the screen put it up for her.

A bride in white stood under a fir tree, holding a man's arm.

Under it ran a typed line from a county record.

*Multnomah County, Oregon. Marriage certificate. Bridget Maslowski.*

A gasp went across the ballroom.

"That's what she is," Daphne said. "A woman who marries and walks away. Ask her if she's still married to that man."

I looked at the screen for a long moment.

The bride had red hair cut in a bob, and she was at least forty years old.

I laughed.

It came out of me unplanned, a short, loud sound that echoed off the gold chairs.

"That woman is not me."

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