Alex POVI'm doing my best, pretending to enjoy the party. If it wasn't for my best friend Stanton, I'd probably be out there somewhere spying on Dana. Stanton leans back in his chair and says, "She's ravishing.""Hm."He turns to look at me. "Is that all you have to say? Look at her, Alex. Any man would want a woman like Jodie." “Yeah.”His gaze crosses the room. "Is that her brother?"He's pointing at Roger, tall, dark, the creole look about him making him stand out, curly hair falling to his collar. Jodie's older brother, flown in from California like the rest of them."Yeah," I say.Fanny comes over and sets a plate of cake on the table in front of us. "Hey, Stanton."Stanton brightens immediately. "Fanny. You look incredible. How do you do it?"She laughs and says, "Good food, sleep, and peace of mind," and then she's gone, drifting back toward the cluster of women near the speakers . . . Jodie's friends. And there's more of them arriving by the hour from California, from New Y
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