Chapter 10: Betray Me and Run

By morning it was on every screen in America. By noon there were three hundred cameras outside the building and my face was on a chyron under the words "BOUGHT BRIDE." By two o'clock, the label had suspended my contract. By four, Dante had stopped speaking to me. I found him in the study with every television on mute and a glass of something untouched at his elbow. "Talk to me," I said. "They'll take everything." He said it flatly, like a weather report. "Fine. I've lost everything before....