Chapter 14 — The Test

“My parents are professors of economics,” I said, taking the seat at the far end of the table, across from him.

“And the PR firm you hired two years ago — I bought it, quietly, as a favor to a friend.

I took the assistant’s desk myself for six months because I wanted to know something.

I wanted to see whether a man in this city could love a woman for herself and not for the number in her accounts.”

I folded my hands and rested my chin on them.