Chapter 9
Natalie
“Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for attending this charity dinner to benefit the children’s art foundation. Due to unforeseen personal circumstances, we had to reschedule our guest speaker last minute. And I am pleased to introduce Mayor Leslie Kensington.”
Penn stilled next to me. I could feel the tension coming off of him in waves. His relationship with his mother was fraught at best. She wanted him to take over the family business and pick up where his father had left off since Court refused to do anything but drink and party. Leslie had been nothing but horrible to us when she found out we were first seeing each other. And though I’d had one positive interaction with her at Katherine’s wedding last month, I wasn’t looking forward to seeing her again. Espec
