Butterfield Institute - 01 - The Halo Effect - Plot & Excerpts
We entered through the zoo entrance and as soon as we left the traffic and the exhaust of Fifth Avenue, I took a deep breath, inhaling the fresher air. If you live in the suburbs you don’t understand how important a park becomes to city dwellers. Especially in the summer. Most of us know every inch of it, the way you know your own backyard. “What’s wrong?” Nina asked. “Am I that transparent?” She shook her head. “No.” “You are just that good, right?” We both laughed. It was an old joke. She could see through me just as she had been able to see through my mother, no matter how dense the thicket of lies. “Dulcie okay?” she asked. “She’s at drama school. I’ve never seen her happier. She hasn’t argued with me about anything for days.” “Okay, so it’s not Dulcie. Are you going to tell me or are you going to make me pull it out of you?” “It’s a patient.” She raised her eyebrows. “So someone’s gotten to you?” I laughed sarcastically. Since graduate school I’d endured the joke that my last name should have been Ice, not Snow.
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