16
EDITH
When Saturday night arrived, I was tired and restless, but I had made a promise. Dinner with Sean's family.
To my enormous relief, I discovered that the dinner was a gathering of all Mitchell Carson's associates.
There were his parents, my father, Grace with her family who ran to hug me as soon as she saw me, Anya with her mother and Lucinda with hers.
The only one missing was Gregory who had refused to be seen again after what had happened with Jake. His father had kept quiet about it, because he preferred to sacrifice his son's dignity rather than see his partnership with the powerful Mitchell Carson fade away.
What one doesn't do for money...
I dressed in an elegant dress, long and black, with the bodice covered in glitter.
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