Divorced for Being Barren, I Came Back Pregnant by His Rival novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Met
Every head in the Temple of Dendur hall turned when the blue coat came through the door.
It fell from Eliot's shoulders to the marble in one dark sweep, and under it a curve showed that no tailor could have hidden.
August walked at his side in a black tuxedo, with a hand under his elbow and a face like a locked door.
Eliot heard the whisper run ahead of them across the glass and the water and the old stone.
*That's the husband.*
*He's pregnant.*
*Whose is it?*
He kept his chin up and let them look.
Four hundred guests stood among the champagne towers, under a screen the size of a house that read HALCYON NEXT in silver.
Eugenia Auchincloss was waiting at the foot of the stage in pearls and gray silk, with a footman beside her.
On his tray sat the porcelain cup.
"Eliot, dear." She kissed the air beside his cheek. "You look well. You look *fertile*."
"Eugenia."
"Your tea. I made it myself."
She lifted the cup from the tray and held it out on its saucer, smiling, the gold rim catching the light.
Eliot looked at it.
"I'll have it later," he said. "Keep it warm."
The smile held for one half second too long.
Then she turned and led them toward the front table, and August's hand tightened once on his arm.
A young man in a cream jacket was standing by the chair at the end of the VanDusen table.
Colby Ames was white to the lips.
He glanced at the stage, where Grayson stood laughing with a cluster of donors, and then pressed something small and heavy into Eliot's palm.
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