Chapter 171 What I Was Wrong About

• Brett's POV
• I had not planned to say anything. The after-party was smaller than fifty people in our inner circle. Marcus had sourced a private room at Aurelius, and the evening had settled into the warm low-grade hum of people who had genuinely earned the right to relax together.
• Riley was three tables over, deep in conversation with the woman from the catering company and two nurses from Mercy General, her heels off under the chair, her hands moving the way they did when she was genuinely animated.