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"Lindsey’s idea," she said "She didn’t want the lance at s considered"
"All things considered," I agreed, and gestured to the chilling bucket of chaet this party started"
• • •
We pulled up in front of the Portet dressed in a suite Helen had reserved for the wedding party--or the female half of it, anyway
We’d party until dawn, and Ethan and I would also spend the day here before toardens at Versailles (by night, of course), excellent chane, and each other
A woman with blond hair in a low ponytail and a dark pantsuit stood in the gilded lobby, clipboard in hand She strode forward on needle-sharp heels, hand extended "Merit," she said with a s my hand with brisk efficiency "Welco us to have a part in your wonderful evening"
"You’re welcome"
"If you’ll co to a bank of elevators, "we’ll get you to your suite Your liuard, until it’s tiuard" took me a moment to process, but I nodded and followed her into the elevator, one of the glass-walled variety that looked out on the city The brass doors closed, and the car dipped slightly as everyone piled on, and then it began its slow ascent, rising over the city, buildings and cars in the Loop twinkling like stars beside the lake’s eht," the wo"
I hoped it would stay that way But I didn’t feel better e exited on the seventeenth floor and proceeded down the hallway to a lone door at the end where a man and woman, both human and both in black, flanked the door They were security contractors who regularly guarded the House gate
I hadn’t known they’d be here--that Luc or Ethan had assigned guards just for this They probably hadn’t wanted me to worry about the possibility of a threat, but that didn’t lanced at Lindsey, and she must have read the expression on my face But before I could inquire, the double doors opened My sister, Charlotte, stood in the doorway in a BRIDE’S CREW T-shirt and pink seersucker shorts
"About da"I can’t wait to see your dress!" Charlotte closed the door behind us, rubbed her hands together gleefully "And it’s tiet started"
The roole with a wall that faced the river, and three separate sitting areas There was a dining roohted mirrors On a low buffet on the wall beside it were ne, crystal flutes, and a silver tray of chocolate-dipped strawberries
"I’ll open the cha for the buffet on bare feet with pretty pink toes "Shay, we’re ready when you are!"
A woman entered from a doorway at the other end of the room Curvy and dark skinned, with a cascade of spiral curls that reached her shoulders and a black camera around her neck She looked at rapher for the evening"