Shannon’s nerves were through the roof, and in a building as tall as the Sweet Breeze Resort, that was saying something.
It wasn’t even her gala, and she felt like every eye had focused on her the moment they stepped off the elevator. But of course they were. She was the woman on Doctor Jeremiah Yeates’s arm, and he was the man of the hour. Everyone would be buzzing about their blooming romance by morning, and Shannon decided she didn’t care.
So she held her head high and kept her smile hitched in place. She’d worked with plenty of people who weren’t one hundred percent happy, and she knew how to charm people so they’d leave Your Tidal Forever happy.
She could do the same here.
She shook hands, and sipped sparkling water from a tall, fluted glass. She waited while Jeremiah did his inte
