After Rejection, Divorced Luna Becomes a Famous Doctor novel · Chapter 8 of 32

Chapter 8: Four Hundred Witnesses

My pancakes won, four bites to one.

Ciara announced it standing on a stool at six on Saturday morning, with syrup-free hands raised over her head.

Fergus took it badly.

"Rigged," he said. "The judge is in your pocket."

"The judge can't eat your pancakes."

"The judge is a traitor." He handed me an apron, red and white stripes, folded square. "Ten tonight. Try not to save anybody. I need you on the grill."

At ten that night the hotel ballroom on Broad Street glowed through its tall terrace doors.

Riordan's truck was parked on the terrace in the cold, between two heaters and a rented palm tree.

I wore Fergus's apron and a hairnet, and I buttered bread.

Through the glass I could see all of it.

Four hundred guests in black tie.

Gold balloons spelling KENLEY x DR. TRINA.

A wall of Reset product stacked, and two cameras on cranes for the livestream.

"Don't look at it," Fergus said, flipping four sandwiches with one spatula. "Look at the bread."

"I'm looking at the bread."

"You're looking at him."

I was.

Emerson stood at the side of the stage in a black tuxedo.

From forty feet away, through glass, I could see he was holding the curtain to stay upright.

Day eleven.

At ten thirty the music stopped, and Trina walked out into a white spotlight in a gold dress.

The crowd cheered.

"And now," she said, "the man who made this possible. Eleven days in, and he's never felt better. Emerson Kenley!"

He walked to the microphone.

He walked carefully.

"Thank you," he said. "Thank you all for... coming to the..."

He looked at the cards in his hand.

He turned them over.

"This is a big night for Kenley Nutrition," he said, and his voice slid on the words. "And I want to thank my partner, who... my partner..."

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