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The Grand Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel was hyperventilating with wealth. The air hung thick and oppressive with the scent of five thousand imported Ecuadorian white roses\u2014each bloom costing more than what most Americans made in an hour\u2014mixed with the humidity of excited breath and the metallic tang of ambition so sharp you could taste it on your tongue. Crystal chandeliers the size of small cars hung from gilded ceilings, their light fracturing into a thousand diamond points that made the room shimmer like the inside of a jewelry box. This wasn\u2019t just a venue. It was a cathedral built to worship the god of Status, and today, my family had appointed themselves its high priests.<\/p>\n

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I stood near the entrance, one hand smoothing the fabric of my dress in a nervous gesture I\u2019d never quite managed to break, even after fifteen years of military discipline. The dress was navy blue, an A-line cut that fell modestly to just below my knees. High-necked. Conservative. Respectable. I\u2019d purchased it off the rack at Macy\u2019s three years ago during a rare weekend of leave, drawn to its simplicity and its comfort rather than its fashion credentials. It was the kind of dress designed to disappear, to blend into backgrounds, to avoid drawing attention. In this room, where gowns cost more than mid-sized sedans and carried designer labels like battle honors, where the sparkle of diamonds on women\u2019s throats and wrists rivaled the chandeliers overhead, I was a smudge of charcoal on a gold canvas. A typo in an otherwise perfect manuscript.And that was exactly what I\u2019d intended.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvelyn!\u201dThe voice was sharp and cutting, slicing through the low cultured hum of the string quartet like a serrated knife through silk. My mother, Catherine Vance, materialized from the crowd with the unerring precision of a heat-seeking missile that had locked onto its target. She was wearing a silver gown that shimmered with every movement, a dress that was perhaps a decade too young for her sixty-two years, tight enough in the bodice to restrict comfortable breathing but loose enough in strategic places to show off the sapphire necklace that draped across her collarbone like a collar of frozen water. I knew\u2014for an absolute fact, because I\u2019d seen the paperwork during my last visit home when my father had carelessly left his study unlocked\u2014that the necklace was insured by a loan leveraged against my father\u2019s construction business. The beautiful thing strangling her neck was actually a noose made of debt, and she wore it like a crown.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDon\u2019t just stand there like a statue,\u201d she hissed, her fingers wrapping around my upper arm with surprising strength, her nails\u2014manicured into dangerous red points that looked like they\u2019d been dipped in fresh blood\u2014digging into my flesh through the thin fabric of my dress. \u201cGo check if the valet is parking the Bentleys correctly. We have extremely important guests arriving in the next few minutes. Mr. Sterling is already here\u2014I saw his car\u2014and we cannot afford any mistakes tonight.\u201d\"\u2b07\ufe0f\"\"\u2b07\ufe0f\"\"\u2b07\ufe0f\"\u00a0Part 2 FINAL\u00a0\u00a0\"\u2b07\ufe0f\"\"\u2b07\ufe0f\"\"\u2b07\ufe0f\"<\/strong><\/a>
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