old against the cab window. Stella rested her forehead against the cool gl
asked, eye-tracking her through the rea
dark street. Her mind
ity Hall drifted into view, and a sharp, un
n a wedding; it was a cold, swift transaction executed during a twenty-minute lunch break.
oy, looking like a man ticking off the final chore on a very long, very unpleasant list.
ed itself into her memory before his eyes flickered toward his stern gran
ocating silence of Park Avenue by telling herself a careful, des
yanked down, leaving beh
s gentle. He was romantic. He knew how to fasten a
y incapable
n. She had spent a year playing the quiet, submissive wife, burying her own identity and her inte
as o
ll have to drop you at the next corner,
sat up straight, smoothing her coat, her posture tra
t Side. Pa
for a man who treated her like an ornament. She was going back to reclaim h
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