It was just a fact they had all been too comfortable to check.

Chapter 20 — The Evening Went On

The gala continued.

That surprised Crispin too.

He had expected the world to stop for his humiliation — just as, for years, he had assumed Lenore’s life should pause whenever he needed something.

But the dinner went on, the conversations went on, and the causes being funded that night mattered more to most of the room than the private downfall of one proud man.