I hold it out of her reach. “Are there nude drawings in here orsomething?”
“I work for Roger because some of us need guaranteed pathsto financial stability,” she snaps. “I didn’t have the money towaste on an architecture degree.”
Belle would probably love to know the similarities in ourbackgrounds. Maybe my “rags to riches” story, as Giorgoscalled it, really could be an inspiration to her.
But I’m not here to be anyone’s f*****g inspiration. And Idon’t need her to relate to me.
I need her to listen.
“Now, give it back to me, asshole,” she spits again.
I fan through the pages, catching glimpses of other houses andbuildings she’s drawn. “Maybe there’s a distinguishedrendering of a particular man in a particular airplane bathroomin here you want
