-Ronan-

My father nods at me with a smile on his face when the attendants bring out the champagne, and if he wasn’t my father, I’d gladly slap the grin away.

I feel like an idiot, asking my mother to give me her engagement ring to put on Stella. But father ‘suggested’ it, or ordered me to. He was right, of course, as always. I have to make up for the scene with Arabella.

Stella reappears after being gone for a few minutes, and the attendants ...