Press.

Board members from your firm.

You cannot leave me standing at the altar.” “I said five minutes.” She studied my face, trying to read me, and reached out to touch my arm — and Nolan made a small, frightened sound and shrank further behind me, and something in that sound settled the last of it.

“Nolan’s tired,” I said, flat.

“Go back to the suite, Vivienne.” “Thomas—” “Go to the suite.” It came out with a cold authority that stopped her bridesmaids mid-whisper.

And I picked up my grandson, and I carried him into the little dressing room I’d used earlier, and I locked the door from the inside.