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A second thread follows Cat and her date Winston amid a luxury wedding weekend that unravels when plans for a Sugar Scrub Couples Massage are canceled and Cat pushes toward ending their relationship. The narrative builds tension around embarrassment, attachments, and hidden motives within a high-society Valentine’s Day setting.","Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster ebook.  \nGet a FREE ebook when you join our mailing list. Plus, get updates on new releases, deals, recommended reads, and more from Simon & Schuster. Click below to sign up  \nand see terms and conditions.  \nCLICK HERE TO SIGN UP  \nAlready a subscriber? Provide your email again so we can register this ebook and send you more of what you like to read. You will continue to receive exclusive offers in  \nyour inbox.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Luke, my husband andfavorite chesspartner  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCɒapteϼ 1  \nEN PASSANT  \nNEW YORK CITY  \nI’m not a good person. What I am, though, is a good woman.  \nYou know what I mean—the diАerence. There’s an art to being a woman in this world, those little winks, the pencil skirts, the mauve eyeshadow. Saying sorry when you’re not sorry, styling your hair within an inch of its life, choosing silence so you can be invisible, so you can do whatever you want. I think I was fourteen the Йrst time I realized that this body would require work. My grandma was perched on her restaurant’s fake marble countertop, short legs swinging, the heels of her nonslip shoes banging softly against the purple cabinet doors. I was in front of her, my chin in her hand as she applied eyeliner to my water line.“This freaking hurts,” I whined.  \n“I know,” she replied calmly.“Ifyou hand me the makeup remover, I can take it oА. Your choice.”  \nWaterЙeld High School’s fall dance was that night, and I had a date with a soft-spoken writer in my class who all the guys called Nosferatu.“No. I’m okay,”I promised Grandma, and when she smiled knowingly at me, I felt like I’d made the right choice: getting stabbed in the eyeball by a sharpened pencil so a boy nicknamed Nosferatu wouldn’t look away from me. You don’t often notice those rites of passage in the moment, when life dunks into the darkness of one long tunnel before you’re out on the other side, brand-new. But when Grandma let me borrow her stop-sign-red lipstick—Revlon’s Fire and Ice—I felt like I’d just become myself.  \nAnd then, at the dance, I learned the second most important lesson of my life. When I overheard Nosferatu trash-talking my handmade dress to his snobby creative writing club friends, I didn’t tell him that it’d taken approximately Йve thousand hours to painstakingly sew hot-pink sequins to cotton. Or that girls  \nwith red hair can wear pink. Or that it’s really shitty to talk about my lack of strongfemale role models like I’m Bambi and he’s a guidance counselor.  \nI kept my Fire-and-Ice lips slammed shut and walked away, silently. All the way home. He’d hurt me, so I hurt him back, and that felt even better than lipstick.  \nAnd now, in a strange way, that’s kind of my job.  \n“This is ridiculous. How can the hotel cancel our Sugar Scrub Couples Massage? Don’t they realize we’re Мying twenty hours to get there?” grumbles my date, Winston. This isn’t new. He’s a grumbler. And he’s been grumbling since he checked his email—during this black-tie wedding cocktail hour, notably. 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