Chapter Eight
Coming into the Waldorf Astoria, the same hotel where a maid played by Jennifer Lopez ran into a billionaire played by Ralph Fiennes in Maid in Manhattan, the same hotel where Al Pacino sniffed out love in Scent of a Woman, the same hotel where Eddie Murphy came to America, Esme realized something. She was woefully underdressed.
She’d worn the very best dress she had. It was a step above a cocktail dress hanging below her knees and brushing her ankles. But it was a step below prom dress with a plunging neckline. Only because she’d had it altered after she’d worn it to prom for a college cocktail party. And then again, for a teacher’s union gala.
The neckline dropped a bit more with each alteration. Plunging might be the wrong word, but the casual onlooker definitely got th
