The Beast on Her Leash novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Black Tie
The Carlisle Hotel ballroom held four hundred people, and by seven forty every chair was full.
There were crystal chandeliers, white tablecloths, a stage with a lectern, and a banner behind it in blue letters.
CROWE INDUSTRIAL FOUNDERS' DINNER. FIFTY YEARS OF PITTSBURGH.
Under the banner, a long head table faced the room.
The county executive sat at its center, a round man in a tuxedo with a face made for ribbon cuttings.
Lyle sat to his right.
Bram sat on Lyle's other side, in a black suit.
He had picked it himself on Tuesday, in a shop on Penn Avenue, and he had not let me say a word.
It fit him.
His white-blond hair was combed back, and his beard was trimmed, and from where I sat he looked calm.
I knew his knee was going under the tablecloth.
I had a table at the front, number one, with Fern in a plum velvet dress and a cane with a ribbon on it.
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