Chapter 218
- GUSTAVO
- I sat in the library with the overhead lights on low, the tall shelves throwing long shadows across the table. The old ledgers lay open in front of me. Pages of names, dates, old deals. I marked a note in the margin about one family’s shift in territory. Nothing big. Just a reminder for the ball.
- My mind wasn’t on the page. It kept going back to yesterday in the drawing room.