Now it was my turn to stand apart, the lone tree on the lawn. One without a clue of what to do now. What with Mrs May-Tree disappearing into the ether like a magician and Gideon taking Selene into the house to make sure she was okay.
Not that you would know from looking around that anything bad had happened to Selene, especially from the way the guests were so blasé. Despite the flailing Server that Gideon had ordered to go find a doctor, no one else had noticed – or perhaps they just didn’t care - that anything dramatic had happened.
It was weird to see these people, Eloise’ guests, standing around, sipping raspberry-infused champagne and smiling, laughing and flirting under the golden eyes of the sun.
Only the strange, somewhat strained, fluttering of my heart, kickstarted the mo
