He left.

The door didn’t close all the way behind him.

Maya looked at Karen across the low table.

The woman who had sl@pped her two hours ago.

Who had grabbed her hair.

Who had screamed at her father in front of a crowd.

Karen looked back.

Her gold gown was ruined.

Her certainty was gone.

What remained was something Maya hadn’t expected to see on that face.

Exhaustion.

“I’m sorry,” Karen said.

“For what I did on the terrace.”

Maya held her gaze.

“I know.”

“That’s not—” Karen shook her head.

“That’s not forgiveness.”

“No,” Maya said.

“It’s not.”

From the hallway, Edmund’s voice carried low through the gap in the door.

May you like

And then another voice answered — one that none of them had expected to hear.

Richard Calloway was already on his way to the estate.

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