Chapter 0240

The evening of the fundraising gala, Elva and I changed into our glistening golden dresses and waited in the parlor with the other candidates for Nathan to come and bring us to the event.

We stood near Susie for a while, but she was distracted. She had prepared notecards for her pitch, as well as some responses to questions she might be asked. She read through them aloud, over and over.

“I’ll hide them up my sleeve if I have to,” she said, when I asked her about them.

Elva twisted and turned, catching light on her puffy shirts. Then she tried to catch it with her hands. She

giggled at her own antics. “So pretty…” she whispered to herself.

“Piper. Speak with us.”

I glanced up to see Veronica approaching, with Tiffany close behind.

My nerves spiked, and I worried they had seen Jane again. But when I looked closer at Tiffany, she

wasn’t carrying her tension in quite the same way she had the previous two times she approached me.

This time, she seemed more excited than anxious.

“What did you want to talk about?” I asked, forcing myself calm.

“How we should split Julian’s time during the gala,” Tiffany said. The two came to stand before Elva and

  1. blinked up at

would be the most logical,” Veronica said. “We will

the benefactors. It would be fruitless to compete

well.”

ourselves won’t look good to the benefactors,” Tiffany added. “Not

would put Julian

a quick, curt nod. “Julian shouldn’t need

Lilliana, Olivia, and almost every other candidate ! had dealt with, aside from Susie, these two genuinely seemed to have Julian’s

than their own.

awe of them, as well as incredibly grateful that they

least,

the room, Lilliana and Olivia were in a conversation of their own, all

conversation with them would

Julian,” Veronica said. “Then

I both agreed.

candidate win,” Tiffany

to,” she said, deadpan. A

up into a

immediately burst into

smiled too, just a little. One of my few real smiles since Jane held a knife to

over the benefactors, so I had been

the smile that looked

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