"Thank you for the invite, I had not been expecting it," she said honestly, but she gave the other woman a tentative smile. "It is, and a shame how it all happened," though Karen never believed, not for one second, that the Devil of Hell's Kitchen had any part in it.

"No, I haven't. I just got here," she said honestly. "What type of wines do they have?" Karen was no expert on wines, so she would defer to Vanessa for some help.