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"...so sorry, Mr. Ballard..."
Triston's face fell. "It's fine," he muttered, then turned to me with a forced smile. "Just... give it a few more minutes."
But those few minutes stretched into fifteen, then twenty. Triston kept checking his phone, his jaw growing tighter with each passing moment. Finally, the restaurant manager appeared, looking mortified.
"Mr. Ballard, I'm afraid the string quartet is completely stuck on the freeway. There's been an accident and—"
"String quartet?" I interrupted, piecing things together. "Triston, what exactly did you plan?"
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