By the time I left the restaurant, the weight of polite smiles had settled in my jaw.

Every curve of my lips in that meeting had been calculated — not too warm and too cold,but just enough to make Alejandro believe I was harmless and Clarissa believe she had won me over.

The YBA circle were predators, and predators always underestimated pretty prey.

I drove home in silence, the city lights streaking past my tinted windows. The fur coat draped over my shoulders felt heavier now, not from ...