She Announced My Replacement at the Ballet. Then the Curtain Rose on Her Ruin.

lips parted.

I watched him understand what it felt like to be used as a ladder.

He looked older by the time he reached the bottom of the page.

“This is fake,” he said.

Margaret shrugged.

“Then challenge it.”

Leonard whispered something to him.

Graham did not respond.

His anger returned, but this time it had nowhere clean to go.

“You had no right,” he said to continue reading …