The Green Dot Lie: A Sister’s Perfect Life, and a Quiet Collapse

for Mia,” I said, my voice raspy from coffee and silence. “Apartment 40B.”

“Is she expecting you?” he asked, his hand hovering near the phone.

“No,” I said. “But if you don’t let me up, I’m going to sit in this lobby until you call the cops, and then she’ll have to come down anyway. Do you really want to wake her up for that?”

He buzzed me in.

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