Velvet Over Steel

The woman was Bianca Blythe, a junior associate at Benton’s law firm who openly nursed a crush on Dane. Flanking her were two debutantes from Aldenridge, their diamonds winking with practiced superiority.

Those two regarded Phoebe as though they had purchased front-row seats to a farcical play and were merely waiting for the punch line.

The bull’s-eye of their thinly veiled hostility was unmistaka