The CEO's Wife is A Badass novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: The Gala

The brass beside the glass doors still said BLAIR KINGSLEY, DIRECTOR.

I touched my badge to the reader anyway, in the navy dress, and the light went green.

The guard stood up behind his desk.

"Good evening, Mrs. Harrington."

"Good evening."

"I put your name back on the list myself," he said, quietly. "Nobody asked me to."

Scott's hand at my back tightened for a moment.

Inside, three hundred people stood under the chandelier in black and silver, holding flutes, and the room hummed.

I had lit it.

I had picked the floor and the wine and the placement of every sconce, and no part of it said so on the program.

I did not care tonight.

A white wall rose at the far end behind a low stage, nine canvases long, hung under nine white sheets.

I had hung them myself on Saturday with two preparators and a ladder, and they had refused to leave until the last wire was level.

I found people in the crowd without trying.

The collector in the gray coat stood near the stairs with the woman from Harbor's design office, who had her gray braid pinned up.

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