How I’ve let myself go.

How Renata, by contrast, is simple perfection.”

A murmur moved through the fifty guests around the pool.

Trent had stopped a few feet away, close enough to grab for me, and something in my face made him hesitate.

I noticed, in that pause, who in the crowd had gone still and watchful rather than merely shocked, and it told me something I had not let myself know.

There were people in that yard who had seen.