Annie was still fairly certain she wouldn't fit in with the social circles that he'd grown up in, the ones that his mother had floated in. Yes, those people were there, too, and a lot of the top people from DC's elite. As long as she could fake it with a smile and the best training the CIA could offer, she was going to be fine.

When all else failed, she could find Auggie and Jai and cheese cubes. Really, they were like the Three Musketeers and, even in her wedding dress, wearing more diamonds than she'd ever worn in her life, she found it easy to laugh with her best friends. The fact that they stayed near the banquet table while the servers prepared brunch as if it were another awards ceremony said a lot about the way the hierarchy still worked at the Agency.

She was having a ball.