Chapter 4 - No one touches the glass

Vanessa moved toward me.
“Give me that.”
“No.”
“Graham, this is ridiculous.”
Lily stepped behind my leg.
I raised the glass away from Vanessa.
She reached again.
I caught her wrist.
Not violently.
Enough to stop her.
Then I said:
“No one is to touch this glass.”
My head of security, Thomas Wren, heard me.
He crossed the ballroom immediately.
I handed him the glass.
“Preserve it.”
Vanessa laughed.
“This is insane.”
“Maybe.”
“You think I poisoned you because a four-year-old pointed at me?”
“No.”
I looked toward Nora.
“I think two people are frightened of the same glass.”
Vanessa’s expression changed.
May you like
Only for half a second.
Lily saw it too.