Thirty days to forever
“Or maybe he just wanted to give you a graceful way to hand it to someone who actually wants it.”
“That's not what this is,” I say. But I don't actually know that. That's the terrible part.
“Thirty days,” Vera says, standing, smoothing her skirt. “I'll start clearing my calendar for the transition. No hard feelings, Sera.”
There are hard feelings. There have always been hard feelings. I don't say so. I just watch her go, heels clicking against the hardwood, and think, distantly, that I have never wanted to win something as badly as I want to win this.