The Hacker Heiress Strikes Back novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: Marlena's Choice
Two hundred people sat back down.
I think they would have sat for anything, after what they had just seen.
Marlena stood at the podium in her white gown with the microphone in both hands.
Her voice was soft again.
It had gone back to the soft one, the one for cameras, and I knew the sound of it so well that my skin crawled.
"I'm so sorry you all had to witness that," she said. "My mother is not well."
Lucinda still knelt on the stage among her pearls, and Marlena did not look at her.
"She has been under pressure for two years, since Waverly came into our lives. Someone has been telling her what to say."
A low, uncertain murmur went across the floor.
"I want to ask you all one question," Marlena said.
She lifted one hand and pointed down into the ballroom.
"Who was on the night shift at St. Brennan's in March of two thousand three?"
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