The Perfect Wife Walked Away
And I sat on the cold floor with my hands bound behind my back and my eyes on Lily, and I thought about Marcus Webb — broken, defeated Zorro, who had sat in a lonely hotel room and told me he was going to do the right thing.
He had tried. In the end, after everything — after the lies, the defamatory article, the character assassination — he had tried to do the right thing. And Lily had opened a door, and he had walked through it, and now he was dead, and she was sitting in front of me in a white dress, waiting to find out if the man she had bent to her will would choose her over me in a game that only she knew was rigged.
Twenty minutes.
I watched the clock on the wall — a cheap analog thing