The invitation arrived by post — an actual card, cream-colored stock, handwritten address, the kind of formal correspondence that people in the Ashford family still used when email felt too casual for the message it needed to send. *Mrs. Margaret Ashford requests the pleasure of your company for tea on Saturday, the 14th, at 3pm. The Peninsula Hong Kong. Please respond to this card.* Dawn read it three times. She turned it over, looking for more information, some indication of what this was ab...
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Next in Chapter 17: Sebastian tracks Dawn down at her studio — and apologizes properly, for the first time.
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