“It will be fine,” she told herself firmly.

She had to believe it.

She told her men to stay out while she looked for him.

She entered the hotel and was directed to the ballroom on the second floor, sectioned off separately from the main floor.

Tanya took the stairs that led to the ballroom just as someone was coming down it.

“Why must I always see you everywhere I go? Isn’t it enough that you ruined my life?!” Susan’s shrill voice dampened Tanya’s mood.

She wondered what she was doing here, especially coming from that part where the receptionist said it was closed off to the public for the...