Chapter 20

• The sequence of events in our chat makes my head spin. Miki exits the cabana and uses one hand to hold the curtain open for me while extending the other to assist me in standing up.
• We stroll by the glistening blue pool and enter the ballroom, where people are having drinks and dancing. I gnaw on my cheek, engrossed in thought, while everyone else looks to be carefree. I give a tight smile to a few people I know, the Mayor and the Police chief, two men twenty years my senior.
• If they learned that the newspaper publisher in the city was thinking of trading her body for cash to enable her to continue operating her business, how would they react?