The Secret Between Us novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Regatta Ball
By eight o'clock Harbor Light was so full that the windows sweated.
They had cleared the dining room and the long hall into one great space and hung it with signal flags.
Two hundred people stood in their best clothes, holding glasses of champagne.
Fishermen in rented tuxedos stood beside women in sequins.
A five-piece band played at the far end under a painted banner that read Wynn Boatworks, Regatta Ball.
I stood by the wall in a dress the color of sea glass, and I had never felt less like dancing.
Under the dress, against my skin, lay my father's legal pad, tucked in a flat pocket Caleb had sewn into the lining himself that afternoon.
He'd done it badly, with sail thread, and I loved him for it.
My gold band was on my left hand.
Pierce's diamond sat in his pocket, where it would stay.
"Everyone's looking," I whispered.
"They're looking at you because you look like the best thing in the room," Caleb said.
"They're looking because I'm supposed to be marrying someone else."
"Then let them look."
He stood at my left in a plain dark suit, the first I'd ever seen him wear, with his hands loose at his sides.
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