FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED
"Detailed, specific, carrying exactly the kind of intimate tone that would be difficult to simply fabricate from nothing."
I felt cold, focused alarm building as I processed the genuine sophistication this apparent fabrication represented, understanding immediately the strategic value such devastating manipulation might offer Cross's continued campaign against our family's stability. "Ella, this has to be fabricated. Whoever this Vera actually is, whatever her genuine motivations might be, I promise you with absolute certainty that I never engaged in any romantic contact with anyone else, ever, throughout our entire relationship."