Jude Shaw was momentarily stunned, his grip tightening on the invitations.
"Nina Crawford specifically asked me to give you an invitation. Are you really not going?" He only had four invitations in his hand, and Nina had explicitly instructed him to give one to Iris Dalton.
The Shaw Family of Valerium had some ties with the Crawford Family, so Jude had known Nina since childhood. Later, when he came to Stellan to study, his relationship with her had faded a lot, but they still kept in touch. For Nina's eighteenth birthday, the Crawford Family had dispatched a cruise ship to host a birthday party for her. It was a clear sign of how highly she was valued by the Crawford Family.
