Chapter 51: The Birthday Gala
(Author's POV)
The Grand Monarch Hotel's entire banquet floor had been reserved for Eleanor Everett's birthday celebration. The lobby alone was enough to make a person stop walking.
Victoria stopped walking.
"Good God," she murmured, tilting her head back to take in the cascading crystal chandeliers, the walls banked with white roses and trailing greenery, the marble floors polished to a mirror shine. "The scale of this."
Sienna stood at Jasper's side, her hand resting in the crook of his arm, and watched Victoria's expression cycle through awe and something that looked dangerously close to envy.
The impulse hit her before she could stop it.
"When it's your birthday," Sienna said, "I'll book this exact venue for you. Same flowers, same everything
