The Ballroom Ambush

~Raina~

The invitation said charity gala and I believed it right up until the moment I walked through the door and saw my mother standing in the entrance hall of the Beaumont ballroom wearing her best diamonds and the expression of a woman who had been planning something for at least two weeks.

She had rented the ballroom. That was the first sign. Evelyn Beaumont did not rent ballrooms for charity