They Gave My Sister the Hotels, So I Stayed to Take Them Back novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: The Showcase
The terrace had never looked so beautiful.
Vanessa had done it in two days, after the ballroom closure, out of pure spite and white hydrangeas.
A long white tent ran along the seawall side, open to the Gulf.
Round tables under linen, gold chairs, a string quartet playing something sweet by the balustrade.
A cake seven tiers high, with sugar oleanders tumbling down one side.
A hundred and fifty wedding planners from every big venue on the coast moved between the tables with champagne.
A photographer from a bridal magazine. Two local news cameras. The reporter from the Galveston paper, who'd called me medicated in print.
I stood at the edge of it in my one good dress with the bank's letter folded in my purse.
Noah came up beside me in a borrowed server's jacket that actually fit.
"Dorinda found me a bigger one," he said. "She says I'm a disgrace to the profession."
"You are."
"Damon's brought a friend," he said quietly.
By the bar stood a heavyset man in a brown suit with a lanyard tucked into his breast pocket.
He wasn't drinking.
"Investigator from the district attorney's office," Noah said. "The bellman checked his car."
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