He Dumped Me at Our Rehearsal Dinner, So a Man Twice My Age Took Me Home novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Ball
The dress had no back at all, and his hand rested on the bare skin at the base of my spine for the entire first hour of the ball.
It was the twentieth of December, and three hundred people in black tie stood under the chandeliers of a ballroom on Madison Square.
I wore green, the color of my tour scarf, and Frankie wore her good boots under a borrowed tuxedo jacket, with her gray braid pinned up and her unlit cigarette in her breast pocket.
"Don't anybody speak to me," she said, taking a champagne flute in each hand. "I'm here for the crab puffs."
Brendan bent to my ear.
"You are the most beautiful woman in this building," he said.
"You have to say that. You bought the dress."
"I'd say it if you'd come in a sack."
His thumb moved once across my skin.
"At two o'clock, the stairs," he said, very low. "Don't forget it."
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