Chapter 206

• The moment I walked out of the party, I heard Rafael fall into step behind me without any conscious effort.
• Throughout the upper levels of high society, the word of our rather quiet but decisive departure traveled more quickly than a hashtag that was now trending. The whispers intensified into a tempest as they spread from the lavishly catered inner salon to the vast atrium, which was where the power players of the city met with one another.
• It was planned that Rafael Sterling would make a proposal to Cassandra Sinclair.