Chapter 10 — The Name From the Stage

In the ballroom the lights shifted to mark the formal start of the evening, and the guests took their seats.

Odette sat beside Crispin; Margery and Georgina were at the same table.

Crispin had glanced at the program and put it away.

He’d seen the name of the investment group and hadn’t bothered with the line naming its president; he was too busy noting who sat at the nearby tables.

The gala opened with the usual speeches about the projects that would be funded that night.