Fated Dynasties
Chapter 18
Maya
The party moved from the dining room to the lounge, the music swelling into something jazzier, more hedonistic, the kind of music that encourages bad decisions and expensive regrets. I get caught in a conversation with a group of investors, nodding and smiling while my mind is already three steps ahead, calculating the wire transfer for Gabriella, planning the conversation I'll need to have with my banker, dreading and anticipating the moment when she is truly gone from my life.