Chapter 8: Errands

The week before the wedding was, against all reasonable expectation, mostly logistics — a fact Wren found both a relief and, in its own strange way, a small tragedy, because nobody had warned her that arranging a marriage of convenience still required the same tedious errands as a real one. "We need rings," Théo said, over the phone, sounding like a man reading from a list he resented. "Odette sa...