Chapter 5
Mike followed the two waiters helping him at the bar out into the main dining room, the last two top-secret cocktails in hand, blinking all over again at how cozy and intimate the normally busy and crowded space looked.
The lights were lower than usual, and flickering candlelight cast a magical glow over the scene. About thirty people instead of closer to sixty were gathered around the tables, from couples to groups of all sizes.
Not one of them had dressed down for the snow night or dinner with friends rather than lovers. Fancy dresses and suits, fabulous hair for everyone, jewelry brought out only for special occasions. In his own black pants, matching vest, and charcoal gray shirt, Mike and everyone else could easily have been at a high-end restaurant in a big city as in a
