When He Came, the Wedding Feast Had Ended

From the back cover

At Rose Delgado's eightieth birthday dinner, the heirloom jade bracelet that passes only to the eldest grandson's wife is handed instead to Doris Winfield, the assistant at Philip Delgado's side. Felicity Mason, who has waited seven years for it, watches the room laugh and says nothing. Philip calls her a friend for the family photo and tells her the bracelet will be hers at their own engagement dinner, once his busy stretch is over.

In a few days Felicity will wear another family's bridal crown. She has packed his case for every trip, drunk until she bled for his deals, signed her own surgical consent form alone while he was too busy to answer. Now he asks her to pack stomach medicine and brown sugar for Doris, who is flying with him, and laughs in the study the way he once laughed under the cherry blossoms.

When he finds her own suitcase instead of his carry-on, he demands to know why it isn't packed, and calls her tantrum a question for the whole family.