“Can we get another bottle of the Pinot down here?” Megan asked.

She had already finished three glasses since we sat down.

“They really did an amazing job with this room,” Ethan said.

“For a four-thousand-dollar venue deposit, they’d better,” Kendra said.

Vanessa tapped her knife against her water glass.

The room quieted down immediately.

She stood up and smoothed the front of her expensive silk dress.

The thin fabric caught on the edge of the wooden chair, but she gently pulled it free.