Chapter 2 - THE WIFE HE NEVER BOTHERED TO KNOW
The music restarted ten minutes later.
No one danced.
A string quartet played something soft and expensive while two hundred people pretended to resume their conversations.
Instead, every conversation in the room revolved around us.
I walked toward an empty cocktail table near the windows.
Nobody stopped me.
The security guards Everett had ordered to remove me were suddenly fascinated by the opposite wall.
I understood why when the older of the two approached quietly.
“Mrs. Hale?”
“Yes?”
He lowered his voice.
“We received updated instructions from hotel management.”
Everett, twenty feet away, noticed us speaking.
The guard continued.
“You are not to be removed.”
I glanced toward the ballroom entrance.
May you like
“And Mr. Hale?”
The guard’s expression remained professional.
