Chapter 26 Chapter Twenty Six

• Julian Crowe paused beside the third silent auction table and watched the coordinator correct a bid sheet without drawing attention to the correction.
• The waterfront gallery event had reached the steady middle stretch when most guests had formed their clusters and the staff could move with less interruption. Sylvia Reyes checked the lot number against her tablet, realigned the sheet, and continued to the next table. She did not look up. Julian filed the efficiency, the absence of performance, and the face he half-remembered from a foundation function months earlier.
• He waited until she finished the row.