“No? Then what?”
Lei pulled me closer, putting his mouth to my ear. “Him.”
The Phantom.Act 3
22
Sitting back in my chair at the dinner table, I listened to the different conversations going on around me, content to be surrounded by my closest and dearest friends—old and new.
It was January seventh and Lei and I had thrown our first dinner party as an official couple in this new year. And though my non-profit organization was going down the toilet, andI had yet to let Lei or my family know of this development, I couldn’t have been happier tonight. What mattered to me was right here around this table. My friends. My new family.