Chapter 41 Missing
- Alaric
- The brooch was more expensive than I had anticipated.
- The bidding war had started innocently enough, some woman across the room casually tossing her paddle up in the air after I’d already made a couple of bids, but she hadn’t backed down since. I adjusted the cuff of my tuxedo sleeve, lifting my own paddle again as the auctioneer called out the new number.