The Heiress Nobody Wanted
Hale opened it, and they stepped into a narrow room with a folding chair, a speaker mounted on the wall, and a long pane of glass that looked into a second room.
Britney sat on the far side of a metal table with her folder closed in front of her and her hands laid flat on top of it. She was wearing the navy dress from graduation, the one she'd said she was going to burn, and she had put her hair up. Across from her, a man in a beige jumpsuit sat with one wrist cuffed to a ring in the table. Ariel had last seen Marcus Whitlow in a leather chair in his own study, a glass of amber liquor untouched at his elbow. He was thinner now, and grayer, and he sat like someone trying to take up as little