How a Five Million Dollar Bet Led to an Unexpected Marriage in Queens

adjusting his left cuff link with a quick, practiced motion of his fingers.

“We have to look like we belong together, Maya,” he said, his eyes scanning the crowd of dinner jackets and silk gowns.

“Is that for the crowd, or is it for the five million dollars?”

He stopped near the entrance to the ballroom, where a heavy velvet curtain blocked the worst continue reading …