Star and Lucien sat at a table in the private room of one of Randy's restaurants. The room had a four-seat table in the centre. There were two chairs on each side of the length and Star sat next to her husband. They held hands. They both needed the comfort even if they did not acknowledge it.
Star was nervous because since the party she was going to meet the one other woman who'd had a place in her husband's heart. She looked over at her husband and her heart ached. He looked a little nervous. He usually had a better hold over his feelings than this. The fact that his nerves were showing told her how much the past was not resolved. It was a dark cloud that she had not seen until it was over her. She usually had better foresight than this but she had been enjoying the warmth of his affection and their little family to notice anything trying to ruin that. Not until it loomed over her.
