Articles by nvvp

Tamara didn’t move for a long moment. Then she turned to Marcus. “You told me she was gone,” she said. Her voice had dropped into […]

The pastor blinked. Someone in the third row made a sound like they’d been struck. Dana’s smile didn’t fall right away. It sort of dissolved […]

The elevator opened on the mezzanine level at 12:19 p.m. I could hear the string quartet through the ballroom doors. They had looped back to […]

Dennis picked up the folder like it was junk mail he planned to throw away. Then he started reading. The color left his face somewhere […]

Marcus filed the divorce petition at 8:02 a.m. the following morning. Dana was served at 9:15, in the parking garage of the Hargrove & Blaine […]

Patricia served Nicole at 11:17 a.m. on a Thursday. I know the exact time because Patricia’s assistant sent me a one-word text: “Served.” I was […]

His voice was the same. Lower, maybe. But the same. “You flew from London for this?” I said. “Patricia sent me the catalog in January,” […]

The front door of the River Walk Grill opened at 8:51 p.m. Detective Angela Reyes came in first, in the navy blazer she had described […]

Patricia had advised me, six weeks earlier, that the safest and cleanest path was to let Marcus end it publicly. Not because I needed the […]

Carolyn filed Monday morning. Not a response to Marcus’s paperwork. He had not filed anything yet. Dara had been bluffing. We filed first. The complaint […]