The CEO's Wife is A Badass novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Her Name on the Door
Philippa did not speak for a while.
She stood at the microphone stand, small and straight in her black velvet, and looked over three hundred people who had stopped holding their glasses.
"I was a fool for five years," she said.
"I praised the woman who made them without once asking who she was."
She turned her head to me.
"Mrs. Harrington. I am sorry."
"Thank you."
"I should like to say the rest of it in front of witnesses."
She tapped her cane on the boards.
"The nine Lanterns are not mine. They belong to Siobhan Doolan, and I'm signing them over tonight."
"Philippa," I said. "You paid for them."
"Mr. Crane will repay every cent with interest, if I have to garnish his gallery's walls."
A ripple of laughter went through the room, startled and relieved.
"They will hang in this building with her name on the wall beside them, and anyone who has a question can come and ask her."
She passed the microphone to me, and her old gold eyes shone.
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