The Fake Debutante and the True Billionaire novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Lights Up
Somebody screamed.
Then the ballroom speakers crackled, and a voice came out of every wall.
"Seven weeks, and not a line of it in writing."
It was Marcelline's warmest voice, the one she kept for pearls and benefactors.
It filled the room from the floor to the painted ceiling.
Two hundred people stopped breathing.
Beside me in the black, I heard the microphone drop.
It hit the dais with a thud that rang through the speakers too.
"Turn that off," Marcelline said, in the dark. "Turn that off at once."
"What about the little club, Mama?" said the speakers, in Sabina's voice.
Then Sabina's laugh rolled out of the ceiling, bright and cruel and utterly unmistakable.
Somewhere at the back, a chair fell over.
"That's the one who shut my club," Tavy called from table twelve, clear as a bell.
"Second row. Gray hair, red face. Hi, sweetheart."
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