Chapter 63 A Taste for Trouble!

• The gala hadn’t kicked off yet, so most guests were just chatting and swapping cards.
• Given his status, Marvin Dove couldn’t be bothered to talk to them. He wore a look of pure enjoyment, a glass of wine in one hand, while the other rested far too casually on Odessa Dove’s shoulder.
• Odessa, a woman—and one who prided herself on her looks—knew exactly what that stare and those hands meant. She was tied up inside. On one hand, she was carrying Felix Briese’s child—three months along. It didn’t show much yet, but it was real. She didn’t want anything too intimate with Marvin.