I was furniture.

That is the strange mercy contempt does for the person it is aimed at: a man who is sure you are nothing will never think to watch you, and a woman no one is watching can do a great deal of quiet, careful work before anybody thinks to look up.

Chapter 10 — Activate the Proxy

I called my father’s old corporate attorney, Corinne.

She answered on the fourth ring, her voice thick with sleep and then sharp with alarm.