Chapter 163

• She muddled through the darkness of the auditorium and found her seat. Up-tempo music blared as the runway dazzled with one magnificent creation after the other.
• But it was mostly lost on her. He didn’t join her in the adjacent seat, and Kassandra, still shaken by everything they had talked about, was glad for a reprieve.
• She now wished she hadn’t asked. She wished she hadn’t seen that vulnerability in his eyes. That she hadn’t seen the ache when he mentioned his parents.