Maura snatches the bouquet Elowen is carrying to her mother’s funeral and crushes the flowers beneath her heel.
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Chapter 13
Elowen became senior event steward two years later.
Nora’s old job.
I hesitated before offering it.
Did not want grief to look hereditary.
So I let another manager conduct interviews.
Elowen won anyway.
Annoying.
At her first major dinner, she found a guest trying to hand a waiter an expensive watch “for Mr. Ravenshaw.”
She returned it.
Politely.
The man said:
“It’s only a gift.”
Elowen answered:
“Then you won’t mind keeping it.”
I heard later.
May you like
Nora would have laughed.
So did I.
