I kept it for seven days because keeping it was the only way it stayed a thing I could act on.
I did not take it to that wedding because I was angry. I had been holding it since the Monday for exactly that purpose, and I spent four days telling myself the purpose was a side room.
Casper.
He thought I had come to end him.
That is why he stood up, and that is why he said please, and that is why a man of thirty-four went the colour of the tablecloth in front of his own wedding.
He had been served on the fourteenth. He had told nobody except his own legal team, one of whom — the quiet man in the grey suit by the bar — he had invited to his wedding, which tells you the state he was in.
And then a woman in uniform walked in with a blue folder and his mother-in-law said her rank out loud.
