Chapter 12: The Engagement Party

They moved her to a "private facility" upstate. That's the phrase Salvatore uses on the phone, gently, like he's doing me a favor. Better care, he says. Nicer grounds. He'll take me to visit — after the wedding. I say thank you. I say it so sweetly that Damien has to leave the room. Saturday comes anyway. That's the cruelest thing about Saturdays. Two hundred people in the ballroom. Ice sculptures. A string quartet. My dress is champagne silk and my hair is up and there's a photographer...