Chapter Ten
The noise from the party next door was disturbing. It was too loud. How had Christopher never noticed before how very loud parties were? He should have; he’d been to enough of them. And yet, somehow, when one was at a party, dancing, flirting, and enjoying oneself, you never noticed.
But Christopher noticed tonight. He noticed because he wasn’t there. He wasn’t at the party. He’d received an invitation, naturally, but… well, how ridiculous would that have been to attend and scare away all the guests with one look at his mangled face? He’d have no one to dance with, he thought with a painful chuckle.
Painful. Pain.
The saber slashed across his face in his mind’s eye.
No! He would not go down that road. He’d felt enough pain in the past year to last him a lifetime. He’d reli
