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Since the night we brought Adelaide to New York I'd gone without alcohol. I'd taken the whiskey to my lips the one night I'd met with Vincent, but I never drank. That said, throughout those months, I'd never craved it as much as I did at this reception. Watching Vincent speak to Adelaide was about to do me in. Maybe I should find Eva and ask her about a tranquilizer. Hell, being part of this family, she surely carried a bottle in her handbag.

It wasn't that the ...