God of Pain novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Toast
The engagement party was held on Saturday night in the ballroom of a hotel on the harbor.
Two hundred people sat at round tables under chandeliers, with five families in the front rows, in black and diamonds.
Nellie's family had made the cake.
It stood on a side table behind the head table, four tiers high, in white sugar roses.
The ledger and the letter were in a white cake box underneath it.
I sat at the head table in a dark red dress, between my father and Tino.
The ring was back on my finger.
Tino's hand lay over mine.
"You look lovely," he said. "Whatever happens tonight, I want you to know I forgave you a long time ago."
"That's very generous," I said.
Across the room, under a row of windows, a tall boy in a borrowed black suit stood against the wall.
His hands hung at his sides.
He had not looked at me once.
My stomach clenched.
I had spent twelve days not asking him a single question.
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