Valeria had suffered through several mind-numbingly dull events in her life, or at least she thought she had. She’d suffered through every meeting with her publicist and with the marketing department. She’d been on some dates that made her want to scrape her eyes right out of their sockets, and they weren’t all dates with the men her well-meaning family set her up with either. She had been forced to attend some of her mother’s events and rallies, and those were the very definition of pain and suffering.
She hadn’t known true pain and suffering until she had to sit through yet another brunch at Siwanoy Country Club, with her hung-over mother and exhausted sister along with Jo’s fuming mother, while waiting anxiously for a date with Jo.
Nathalie usually came across as a pretty calm and put
