Chapter 4

"OPEN THIS DOOR." Ruth's voice detonated down the hallway and stopped the string quartet mid-bar. "You bolted a nine-months-pregnant woman into a room? She's been asking for a doctor since Wednesday — the housekeeper called me, Marilyn, because none of you would pick up your phones. MOVE." Marilyn flattened herself against my door with her arms spread like a woman guarding a vault. "She's performing, Mother. She does this every single time—" "She said she was bleeding!" "She always...