Sunday, October 25, 2026
Mavenlus
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PART 2 OF 18

Turn Around

Mavenlus DeskFICTION

The Ashford Foundation gala is the last Saturday of August. Two hundred people, a marquee off the terrace, a string quartet in the hall, and eleven of us in service black.

I had a tray of empty champagne flutes balanced on my left hand and I was moving toward the kitchen passage when she said it from behind me.

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