Chapter 20: The Silence Returns
POV: Dominic Jules won’t stop crying. Not the quiet, sealed-off crying he did in the months after Cecile died, when […]
His son hasn’t spoken in over a year. He needs someone who won’t quit. Neither expected the nanny to be the one person who brings his world back to life.
POV: Dominic Jules won’t stop crying. Not the quiet, sealed-off crying he did in the months after Cecile died, when […]
POV: Valencia The press doesn’t sleep. They’ve been camped outside the building for two days now — a restless, hungry
POV: Dominic The arrangement has been running for weeks now—publicly a couple, privately strangers. The charade. They attend the events,
POV: Valencia The fake dating continues. Awkwardly. Painfully. With the particular strained quality of something that used to be manageable
POV: Dominic Dominic barely sleeps. He lies in the dark with the city glowing through the windows and replays the
POV: Valencia This is their fifth public appearance together, and Valencia’s nerves are worse than the first time. She’s gotten
POV: Dominic Three weeks of fake dating is driving Dominic slowly insane. They’ve attended four public events together. Gallery opening
POV: Valencia The stylist arrives Friday afternoon with six garment bags and an attitude that suggests dressing the nanny-turned-girlfriend is
POV: Dominic Dominic spends all night thinking about how to solve an impossible problem. The problem: He’s in love with
POV: Valencia Genevieve St. Clair arrives unannounced on Monday morning, which is becoming a terrible pattern. Valencia’s in the kitchen