He Sent Me Overseas to Marry Her, I'm Staying Overseas to Never See Him Again novel · Chapter 24 of 32

Chapter 24: The Launch

I knew the green dress.

Silk, dark as a bottle, with a low back.

He'd picked it out for an investor dinner three years ago and told me to wear my hair down.

It was hanging in a closet in New York with everything else I'd left.

I deleted the message and got up and made Oliver's terrible coffee.

At seven that evening, I put on my white shirt and my dark jeans.

Then I tied on my leather apron, the one with the wax on the pocket.

We came to the hotel the back way, through the loading bay.

The manager met us at the service door.

The doorman stood behind him with the brass luggage trolley.

"The same one," the doorman said. "I'm told it's iconic."

Zoe beamed at him.

The old cutter and Oliver lifted Peggy's 1979 trunk off the van and onto the trolley.

Zoe held the New Jersey bag against her chest in its supermarket wrapping.

The rest of the crew stood in a line on the cobbles in their best clothes, breathing steam in the cold.

The manager walked us to a curtained door at the end of a corridor.

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