HE GAVE MY PLACE TO HIS MISTRESS. OUR SON GAVE ME THE COMPANY

and unchanged by the eleven months since I had last heard it.

I looked through the glass at the rain falling over Manhattan.

“He served the papers.”

“And the championship?”

“He put Celeste in the photograph.”

Julian was silent.

He had known Graham would move against me. He had not known how publicly.

“What did Owen do?” he asked.

“He told the truth.”

“Then continue reading …