Chapter 31

When the two returned to the ballroom, it was much less crowded, with Shen Ron and Gu William and Lim Toby, familiar faces, nowhere to be found. Cheng Lydia thought to herself, and asked one of the waiters to tell her that the more respectable men had been invited to the VIP room for drinks. Cheng Lydia was happy not to have to accompany the men around the stage, so she and Chung Grace each carried a small plate of snacks out of the terrace and around the spiral staircase to the garden on the first floor. "I'm starving." Chung Grace placed the pastry on the stone table and used her fork to deliver a bite of cheesecake to her mouth, then forked another and handed it to Cheng Lydia, "The cheese here is not bad, try a bite." Cheng Lydia took it with her mouth open without thinking, nodding, "It's really good." "It's been a while since I've had boiled fish at Phoenix Terrace, why don't we go eat later?" Chung Grace