Regrets and Apologies

Inside the ballroom, the music had already returned, and the tension from earlier was slowly shifting back to chatter and clinking glasses.

Maeve sat with Nora at one of the lounge tables, both of them holding tall glasses of non-alcoholic cocktails. The lights caught the ice as they stirred lazily, watching the swirl like it was more interesting than the people around them.

Nora leaned closer, gr