Chapter 10
Tonight was different. Kari could feel it, and it wasn’t merely that they were at Angelo’s or that they were together. The three of them had eaten together dozens of times: at Richard’s house, at restaurants, or huddled backstage at the opera among lighting instruments and cables when Richard couldn’t get away for more than a few minutes.
Kari had found her hopes and her dreams, but she couldn’t ask for them to come true. Richard and Lana were the family unit—something far too precious, too fragile to risk. It was in such perfect balance that she only dared sit on the outside and dream of being inside.
Like her clothing designs that had never excelled. She could breathe life into Tammy’s ideas, create an exciting collaboration, but she couldn’t go off on her own and find succ
