The next morning, the local papers didn’t mention the decor or the guest list. They featured a photograph of the orphan and the girl in the silver dress, locked in a dance that had brought a room of monsters to their knees.
See also PART 3: Daniel’s voice hardened again. “So when you stand in my lobby and humiliate her, you are humiliating someone this resort owes a debt to.”
Wesley Williams wasn’t a water boy for long. Before the week was out, he had a full scholarship to the medical school of his choice, sponsored anonymously by the Ashford family. Savannah returned to her life, no longer defined by the chair, but by the moment she realized she could stand again. As for Trevor Hamilton, his reputation withered as quickly as his ego, eventually fading into the irrelevance he had tried so hard to force upon Savannah.