The Warlord Returns novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Stage
The ballroom was gold and white, with two hundred guests at round tables and a string quartet playing something sad on purpose.
The Governor sat at the front table in a navy suit with his wife.
A banner above the stage read THE HARBOR FUND GALA, and under it Carrie's portrait stood on its easel, lit by a single white spot.
Somebody had put it back.
I noticed that first, and my throat closed.
Margaret sat at the next table in a black dress and a triple strand of pearls.
The judge was beside her, and across the aisle was a man with the silver epaulets of a police commissioner.
All four of them were exactly where Jack had said they would be.
I stood in the wings in the black silk dress with Carrie's purple phone gripped in both hands.
Jack had put it in my palm in the car, and his fingers had stayed on mine a moment.
In my left ear a voice said, very quietly, "I'm at the back by the pillar. You're not alone."
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