Swept Away by My Janitor Husband novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Gala
At five on Saturday the lawyer texted two lines.
"A man in a camel coat was stopped at the airport with a thumb drive and a bank envelope."
"The detective will be at your table."
I showed it to Glenn in the penthouse hall mirror, and he kissed the side of my head.
"Say your piece," he said. "I'll be right there."
"You'll be at the head table."
"Fifty feet away. I measured."
The sixtieth anniversary gala of Wexler Freight filled the grand ballroom of a downtown hotel.
Six hundred people in black tie sat at round tables under three crystal chandeliers.
There were shippers, dispatchers, drivers in their good boots, and a city councilwoman with a camera crew from the local news.
A banner over the stage read, "Sixty Years on the Road."
I wore the one good black dress for the third time in a week.
It had been to every fight so far, and I was not changing a winning outfit.
My mother had done my hair.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Swept Away by My Janitor Husband are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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