Chapter 42

42

Cassidy's POV

As the final notes of the evening faded beneath the soft clink of glasses and closing laughter, I exhaled slowly, the ache in my cheeks from hours of polite smiling finally catching up to me. My feet pulsed with dull pain inside the heels I’d regretted wearing an hour into the event, and my head still swirled with the chaos of the night.

Between Cyprian’s Medusa piece, the sudden