CHAPTER 3
Wayde and Betti arrived at the party an hour after it was underway. The front door was open, and the party was in full swing. Lisa’s high-end fifth-floor apartment was vivid and ostentatious. Everything—the walls, the furniture, the lamps—were colorful, as was Lisa herself in a full-length, white and bright-yellow, silk sleeveless dress. With her shiny black hair piled high in an updo on her head and her six-foot, skinny body walking around on Christian Louboutin, light-gold-mirrored platform pump shoes, she looked like a crane overlooking its brood. She welcomed Betti and Wayde and directed them to the busy bar in the kitchen. Wayde ordered two tall Dewar’s and soda and they mingled through the guests.
A wide variety of people were conglomerating throughout the apartment, and
