He Wants Her Back: The Billionaire's Leading Lady novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Gala
"You bought it," I said.
"Thursday," Damon said. "Through a company with a boring name."
"Does she know?"
"She will."
Bea looked from him to me.
"I need to sit down," she said. "I'm already sitting down. I need to sit down more."
The old hotel on Wilshire had a ballroom with three crystal chandeliers and a ceiling painted with clouds.
On Saturday night it was full of white roses.
Three hundred guests in black tie sat at round tables under them.
A giant screen hung behind the stage, showing the foundation's logo and a soft-focus photo of Vivica in a hospital bed, holding a lily.
I walked in through the front doors on Damon's arm in a long red dress Bea had found me in a day.
Every conversation in the ballroom stopped.
A woman at the nearest table dropped her fork.
Helena saw us from the stage steps.
Her face didn't change.
She just lifted one finger, and a young man with a clipboard hurried over to us.
"Miss Hartigan," he said miserably. "You're at table forty."
Table forty was in the back corner, beside the kitchen doors, with the photographers and two sound engineers.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of He Wants Her Back: The Billionaire's Leading Lady are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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