He Chose His Ex, So I Chose My Empire novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: His Date
"Seven o'clock," I said. "Don't bring flowers."
"No flowers."
"And you're not sitting at the back. You're my date. You sit where I put you."
He nodded slowly.
"Where you put me," he said.
...
The garden room at the Palace had a glass roof the size of a tennis court, and under it, forty round tables in white and gold.
I walked in on Hugh's arm, and the place card on table six said, in looping calligraphy, "Laurel Dempsey, First Key."
The card next to it said, "Guest of Ms. Dempsey."
Hugh picked it up and looked at it for a long moment.
"Somebody's having fun," he said.
"Somebody on the committee is your sister."
"Of course she is."
He put the card in his breast pocket.
I saw him do it and didn't say a word.
The room noticed us.
Of course it did.
But it wasn't the old look, the one from the Fairmont, the menus and the little smiles.
A man from the opera board stopped by our table to shake my hand.
"Ms. Dempsey. First Key. The housing director won't stop talking about you."
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