Chapter 10: Goodbye, Colette Warth

The reek of cat urine had numbed me. My head swam, a heavy sleepiness rolled over me, and I drifted off on the bench inside the little park pavilion. I had no idea how long I slept before the sound of a man and a woman arguing yanked me awake. When I opened my eyes, the sky was spattered with stars. "Don't think I don't know you have a woman on the side. You take me for a fool?" The woman had begun to cry. She sounded wrecked. "I told you, it's for work. Sometimes you have to play along, it's...