The Billionaire's Rescue novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Hartwell Table
By the second Saturday in March I was thirty-seven weeks and shaped like a lifeboat.
The doctor had cleared me for one dinner and not one minute longer.
The Hartwell dining room had a table for twenty and a ceiling painted with ships.
Cornelius sat at the head in a dark suit that hung off him.
He had put me at his right hand and Margot at his left, with Agnes beside her.
Agnes wore the good cardigan and a pair of pearl earrings Margot had pressed into her palm that morning.
Torben sat on my other side with his hand resting on the cloth near mine.
The lemon tart waited on the sideboard under a glass dome.
I had baked it that afternoon with my belly against the counter.
Cornelius hadn't taken his eyes off it since we sat.
"After business," he'd said. "I'm told I can't have dessert first."
Across the table sat Lance's mother, in a black dress and the pearls.
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