The wedding prep sped up after the fitting.
Once Estelle Rhodes picked a date, everything moved too fast. Six weeks, the board announcement said. An accelerated timeline to beat the will's deadline with room to spare. Every day after that felt like being swept along by a current too strong to fight.
Two days after the boutique, Genevieve's assistant called about final alterations, and because the boutique still carried too much weight for Damien to walk back into so soon, a tailor came to the mansion instead — Ethan Jones's cousin, a quiet, meticulous man named Silas who set up a little fitting station in one of the unused sitting rooms and spent two hours pinning the hem of her dress with the careful hands of a man who'd done this his whole life.
Odette liked him at first. Polite. Prof
