#Chapter 202: Wooden Flames

Zane POV It was getting to the point where I couldn’t sneeze without someone commenting about it online, so it was futile to hope that the art fair wasn’t going to be internet fodder. Officially, it was a showing of the work of first- and second-level students at Saradon Elementary. Unofficially, it was my child’s “grand appearance,” and after Grace’s performance, expectations were ridiculously high. I would have given pretty much everything I had, if it were possible, to spare Chloe the circus. We left the car with Buddy and Danielle, and Sarah and I did our best to protect my daughters’ faces from what seemed like a thousand camera phones as we entered the art building. It didn’t help that the other parents doubtlessly resented the fact their children’s artwork was being completely overshadowed. I had talked with the school about perhaps showing Chloe’s work at a separate affair, but they’d insisted that Saradon Elementary was home to many famous artists and that I was being