28 - True Mate

~Daphne’s Point of View~

As we ate a dinner that I now knew was $1,000 a plate and listened to a live band play jazz music, I seriously couldn’t help but wonder how this was my life. Yeah tonight was temporary but what Vance clearly wanted was to give me the memory. To show me he was willing to make the effort. That maybe sometimes I could have the best of both worlds. But certainly our time would almost all be spent in his world. I still couldn’t bring myself to say it was my world.

I had told Gabby I wanted them to meet me halfway and if this wasn’t it, I didn’t know what was, though again … temporary.

Being back in the states, wearing a fairy dress literally made by a real live fairy … it was beyond a dream. Certainly something a one year ago Daphne Patterson couldn’t have even remotely expected.

Maybe another part of this night was trust. Vance needed to show that he believed enough in what we had so far, what I’d started with Christian to make me stay. Though I could find a