Everyone at today's party was young, and gossip spread at lightning speed. The affair between Joyce Monroe and Silas Thorne was already common knowledge, but no one expected the woman herself to actually appear.
After a brief, stunned silence, Joyce Monroe stepped into the banquet hall and took a glass of champagne from a server's tray. The crowd immediately began to whisper among themselves, while Julian Griffin followed closely behind her:
"You've really got some nerve, my lady."
"Why do you keep following me?" Joyce Monroe frowned.
"I..."
Julian Griffin didn't even know why himself.
The truth was, Ina Sutton had been the mastermind behind the recent incident at the hospital, and he had been her accomplice. The only reason he was still a free man was because Joyce Monroe had let him off the hook. For that, Julian Griffin was deeply grateful.
'He'd decided then and there that he would repay her kindness a thousandfold. From now on, he would follow her lead no matter what.'
