“My mother is the woman who taught me grace,” Felicity announced during her toast while the room applauded her performance. She thanked Kenneth for being a hero and then turned her gaze toward the back of the room where I was sitting.
“And this is my stepsister, just a nurse,” she said with a smirk that caused half the room to chuckle. Kenneth laughed the loudest while Monica sipped her wine with a look of pure victory on her face.
I noticed that Silas Montgomery was the only person who did not laugh because he was staring at my mother’s pearl earrings. He whispered something to his wife and then stood up to walk toward the microphone after the toasts were supposed to be over.
“I have been looking for a specific person for three years,” Silas said as the room went quiet and the servers stopped moving. He described the accident on the highway and the woman who had saved his life by kneeling in the glass and rain.
“The paramedics told me that if she hadn’t held my neck still, I would be paralyzed or dead,” Silas told the shocked crowd. He looked directly at me and told everyone that the “angel” he had been searching for was sitting at the back of the room.