IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME
We had been at Crawford until eight, working through the London entities case with Sol and a barrister who had joined the project the week before, and when the barrister left and Sol announced he was going home before his houseplants staged an intervention, Madeline and I had the office to ourselves.
She was at her desk. I was at the table. It was a Tuesday evening in December, and the city was lit up outside the window, and it was the most ordinary moment of a year that had contained some of the least ordinary moments either of us had lived through.
I thought: now.
I got up from the table.
She looked up from her desk.
"Jeremy," she said, reading something in my face with the accuracy she ha