The Billionaire's Fake Wife novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Gala
The Founders' Gala was held on Saturday night in a hotel ballroom with a ceiling of painted clouds and four hundred guests under it.
I came in on Rhys's arm in a black dress, with his mother's ring on my hand.
"Left side," I said under my breath. "Say nothing unless I ask."
"Understood."
"You hate this."
"I'm learning to enjoy it," he said. "It's very restful."
Pippa came behind us in her orange dress, with Sybil beside her in plain black and no jewelry at all.
Photographers called our names.
I did not smile for them, and I did not look away.
The members of the Foundation board sat at a long table on a raised stage.
There were twelve chairs in a row, under a banner with the Halloway crest.
Odile was in the center in dark silver, with her cane against her knee.
Dorian sat at the far end, in a navy suit and a new watch.
He had the face of a man who had not lost anything yet.
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