Claude needed to fix the damage he'd done.
The horror that had been his failed speech during brunch with members of the Old Families had set back his plan of getting them to support his first project as Head Vampire, undoubtedly they wouldn't take him seriously either once he proposed the revisions to their Book of Laws.
So, tonight, he'd set a few things right.
Natalie Oliander's engagement party would commence on a Wednesday, because the Olianders didn't care that they still had work or—in Claude's case—school. If one were invited to a celebration for the Official Vampire Respresentative's daughter, that someone made time. It didn't matter how far they lived from Tempest Grounds.
The party would start at seven. Claude arrived from I.I.U. to his apartment at three. He had approximatel
