And this guy with the name tag keeps saying he can’t help me.”

“What did he say, exactly?”

“He said the booking was canceled on the twenty-third and he can’t reinstate it.

Only the cardholder can.” A breath.

“So who’s the cardholder?

Why is your name on everything we hand them?”

Because I paid the deposit in October on my own card, I told him, and the master billing account carried a single name, and that name was mine.

The line went quiet except for the crowd.