The Gilded Bluff

ROWAN’S POV

And my stomach drops, because there is no Mr Dawn. But Rosalyn Dawn does not drop her cover. Rosalyn Dawn laughs.

It comes out of me sharp and bright and just this side of unhinged, the laugh of a woman who has never once in her gilded life been told no.

And I reach into my clutch and pull out the gold-cased phone Cleo bought for exactly this, and I hold it out to the pit boss like I’m