“What’s on your mind, Samuel?” Lucas asked.
Beside him the nervous tech looked across the sea of people. He wasn’t fond of crowds but he was determined to stay for his sister’s big reveal. His gaze sought her out and he watched her laughing easily with Macey and Rose DaLair as well as Avalynn Prescott. She seemed completely comfortable talking with anyone daring enough to approach. But she was always more gregarious than him.
Samuel’s attention shifted to Zoe who sat in her great-grandmother’s lap as she munched hors d’oeuvres. At the same table Augustus DaLair, Richard and Opal Prescott and Emerson Carlisle all sat with various grandchildren in their laps talking easily with each other despite the bitter rivalries they used to share. Like her mother, Zoe seemed perfectly at home among
