“Get out.

Get out of this hotel.

You’re a pathetic, lying spinster, and you are no longer part of this family.”

“I’m certainly not part of this family,” I agreed, quietly.

“But I am not a spinster.”

He opened his mouth to answer — and then a sound from the back of the ballroom stopped him, and stopped everyone, and turned every head toward the doors.

Chapter 14 — The Man in the Midnight-Blue Suit