Most of them, I never do; that’s not how it works.
But I know she walked out with the one thing I’d had to claw back alone: the beginning of a suspicion that the failure she’d been carrying might not have her name on it after all.
If the center never does anything else, it will have done that, and it will have been worth every dollar dragged back out of Delphine’s accounts to build it.
Xavier joined me on the terrace as the sunset warmed the glass across the city.
He was my business partner in the center and my friend, and he had never once tried to be anything more, which is one of the reasons I trusted him to help me build it.
Not every good thing in a woman’s life has to be a romance.
Some of the best ones are just people who told you the truth when it mattered.
From inside came the soft, insistent cry of my three-month-old daughter, waking from her nap.
I went in and picked her up and kissed her forehead, and stood a moment in the window light, looking out at the life I had rebuilt board by board from the wreckage of the one they’d stolen.
Weston once called me useless, in front of a corridor full of strangers, because I couldn’t give him a child.